IPFW pipe command

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat Dec 17 20:43:01 PST 2005


In the last episode (Dec 18), Malcolm Clarke said:
> I have a question regarding use of the "pipe" command in IPFW. I use
> the following commands
> 
> #ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any
> #ipfw pipe 1 config
> 
> but get the following error
> 
> ipfw: setsockopt(IP_DUMMYNET_CONFIGURE): Protocol not available
> 
> I have added firewall_enable="YES" in rc.conf
> 
> Is there a setting I need to set or change

Ipfw pipes and queues are part of the dummynet traffic shaper.  You
will need to rebuild your kernel with "options DUMMYNET".

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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