conf/56031: ipfw hangs on every invocation

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, James F.  Hranicky wrote:

> Let me know if I can provide any more info. 

This seems to suggest it's really just the userland application spinning,
not a hang in the kernel.  Could you try using truss to see if, once it
starts spinning, it's making system calls, or just stuck entirely in
userspace?
  
Assuming it's purely a userspace problem (perhaps triggered by
syntactically poor output from the kernel), the next thing to do is
probably to instrument your ipfw binary with either printfs or debugging
symbols and see where in its execution it is spinning.  Could you include
a list of your IPFW rules also, please?  I wonder if the kernel or
userland tool contains a bug that is causing it to misbehave for some
specific ruleset.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories