In some email I received from dave, sie wrote: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > Hello, > I've got a pair of FreeBSD machines both running freebsd 5.3-RELEASE and > ipfilter. Both boxes are loading ipfilter via a loadable kernel module from > rc.conf: > > ipfilter_enable="YES" > ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules" > ipfilter_flags="" > > On one box ipfilter starts without giving this error message, the second one > does: > > "ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): invalid argument" > > I thought this had something to do with the fact that the second machine was > not running a kernel with the ipv6 option in it, so i adjusted it but that > didn't solve the problem. The first machine is running with a kernel > securelevel of 1 while machine2 is at the default, so i would have expected > this from box1, other than that machine1 is running ipnat box 2 is not. When > i log in i have to reload ipfilter on box2 although it says loading ipfilter > and it is in the kernel the rules are not active. Reloading the rules > corrects this, but i don't get any ipf syntax errors.Any suggestions > appreciated.
The kernel doesn't have IPv6 support compiled would be my guess. Darren
