Unable to use network early in boot with recent -current
Kevin Oberman
oberman at es.net
Wed Feb 21 16:29:00 UTC 2007
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:16:35 -0600
> From: Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org>
>
> On 02/20/07 17:06, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > My laptop running current of Feb. 9 seems to be unable to configure and
> > use a network interface early in the startup process.
> >
> > I use Tobias Roth's profile script to determine where my laptop is
> > located and to configure it appropriately. This is done by setting an
> > address on an interface and trying to ping a known neighbor (usually a
> > router).
> >
> > This worked on systems built through Jan. 25, but now attempting to do
> > this right after root is mounted RW, I get "sendto: permission denied".
> > I get this at any point in the startup prior to netif. This is in
> > single user mode, so this is quite baffling to me, although I realize
> > that this method is unorthodox (and certainly not supported), but it
> > has always worked and I don't see what broke it.
> >
> > Any ideas of what might be going on?
>
>
> Firewall rules?
I'm afraid ipfw starts up much later than root. No firewall should be
running at that point. The only startups completed at the point I do
this are dumpon, initrandom, geli, swap1, early.sh, fsck, and root.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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