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Jeffrey D. Brower wrote:
| Greetings all!
|
| I am building a new FreeBSD box for a firewall. The last one was running
| 3.4.31 so I guess it was time. <grin>
|
| I get this set of messages (new to me) when I am booting:
|
| Enabling ipfilter
| 361:ioctl(add/insert rule):File exists
| 423:ioctl(add/insert rule):File exists
| 703:ioctl(add/insert rule):File exists
| 1:ioctl(add/insert rule):File exists
| ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid argument
| Installing NAT rules.
| 0 entries flushed from NAT table
| 0 entries flushed from NAT list
|
| I am concerned that lines 2 through 6 are errors, but my attention is
| obviously drawn to the last one of the set of errors since it says
"Invalid
| argument". I can't find this on the list and Google was not my
friend, so I
| thought I would ask you fine folks if my ship was sinking.
|
| What exactly is ipfilter telling me, do I need to be worried and what
can I
| do to get a clean boot?
I think what IPFilter is telling you is that /etc/rc.d/ipfilter runs
various ipfilter
commands with the -6 command line option, telling it to do something for
IPv6 but then the kernel rejects it. Try cleaning up that boot script
and see
how you go...
Darren
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