Can't kldload pf

[cpghost at cordula.ws]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:34:00AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:33, cpghost at cordula.ws wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:13:51PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> > > On Thursday 10 March 2005 18:52, cpghost at cordula.ws wrote:
> > > > on RELENG_5, cvsupped March 9th, I can't kldload pf:
> > > >
> > > > fw# kldload pf
> > > > kldload: can't load pf: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > You don't have "options INET6" in your kernel config, but the pf module
> > > assumes that it is there.  You can either built pf into the kernel (since
> > > you are building a custom kernel anyway), rebuild the module without that
> > > assumption (see the module's Makefile) or you can reenable "options
> > > INET6" in the kernel.
> >
> > Yes, INET6 is needed indeed. That was the catch! Adding "options INET6"
> > solved the problem.
> >
> > > The ENOENT error returned from kldload is a bit misleading, though.
> >
> > Ugh... yes ;). Perhaps that should be documented in pf(4)?
> 
> It's not pf per se..
> If you ran dmesg after your kldload attempts you'd see the kernel linker 
> complaining about being unable to resolve some IPv6 related symbols.
> 
> Other possibility is to do..
> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/pf
> make NO_INET6= install
> 
> and load it again.

Interesting. I'll try this next time.

Many thanks,
-cpghost.

> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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