ipfw segfaults on 4.9-STABLE (??)

Russell Sutherland russ at madhaus.cns.utoronto.ca
Wed Oct 29 10:51:01 PST 2003


* Andy Gilligan (andy at glbx.net) [28 Oct 2003 19:35]:

> > obfleur# ipfw show
> > Segmentation fault 
> > 
> > Seems we managed to enable ipfw2 in the config file, but this shouldn't 
> > segfault ipfw should it? 
> > 
> > bash-2.05b# uname -ar
> > FreeBSD obfleur 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Mon Oct 27 22:06:20 CET 
> > 2003     root at obfleur:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OB  i386 
> > 
> > Anyone seen this? :) 
> > 
> 
> I've seen it happen when /sbin/ipfw hasn't been compiled with IPFW2 support
> and the kernel has. (and probably vice-versa)
> 
> # cd /usr/src/sbin/ipfw/
> # make -DIPFW2 clean all install
> 
> Should hopefully cure the segfault.

I've seen this recently as well...
And confirmed that the proper action to do is:

        # cd /usr/src/sbin/ipfw/
        # make -DIPFW2 clean all install

Or perhaps editting /etc/defaults/make.conf: 

        CFLAGS="-DIPFW2"

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