conf/56031: ipfw hangs on every invocation

[James F. Hranicky]

>Number:         56031
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       ipfw hangs on every invocation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 27 04:20:14 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     James F. Hranicky
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
University of Florida CISE Department
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD palm.cise.ufl.edu 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #30: Tue Aug 12 11:51:33 EDT 2003 root at palm.cise.ufl.edu:/private/freebsd-src/obj/private/freebsd-src/src/sys/CISEKERN i386

>Description:
	Upon upgrade to 4.8-STABLE #30: Tue Aug 12 11:51:33 EDT 2003, ipfw hangs each
        time it is called. 

        All my machines upgraded to the version above have ipfw's left hung by
        /etc/periodic/security/500.ipfwdenied. 

        Those still at 4.8-STABLE #28: Tue Jun 10 09:21:14 do not seem to have
        this problem. 

        I do not currently use ipfw on any machine for firewalling capabilities, it
        is compiled into my kernel in case I need it. I have the default set to allow
        all packets through.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Unknown.
>Fix:
	Unknown


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