After upgrade to 13.0-RELEASE ipfw locks the boxes

[Valeri Galtsev]

Dear All,

as a lazy person, before I start rewriting all my ipfw scripts I decided to ask somebody’s else wisdom. It is possible that I missed something I have to do related to ipfw in this particular upgrade: from 12.2-RELEASE to 13.0-RELEASE

I have a bunch of boxes that I have rather similar (though not identical) ipfw scripts on, these were written a while back (around 8.x-RELEASE), and were just slightly modified on some occasions. None of previous upgrades 8 —> 9; 9 —> 10,.. 11 —> 12 led to any problems as far as ipfw is concerned. I was just rebooting the machine after kernel upgrade, and after userland upgrade and all pkg reinstallation, I was testing things as usually, no problem with ipfw.

After this upgrade: to 13.0-RELEASE, ipfw effectively locks any remote access to the box (except for ping). My first guess was I just missed relevant part in release notes (which I must confess I rarely read carefully), but I don’t find anything special related to ipfw.

I hope, someone points me too obvious “pilot error” I made. Before I start re-creating ipfw scripts, and testing every line in them as did when I was learning it when first started playing with ipfw.

Thanks in advance for all your answers.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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