At date and time Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:52:07 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > I have decided to give up on pf after banging my head against the wall > (and the OBSD mailing list) and try npf but I can't figure out the > syntax. I followed the example at http://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/npf/ > but I keep getting errors when I validate. I reduced npf.conf to the > following two lines: > > table <friends> type tree file "/VEX/general/pf/friends.list" > table <enemies> type tree file "/VEX/general/pf/enemies.list" > > This gives me this error: > > # npfctl validate > npfctl: table '0' is already defined > > If I remove one line I get this: > > # npfctl validate > table <0> type tree > > If I put the full file and comment out the table lines I get this: > > # npfctl validate > /etc/npf.conf:11:3: syntax error near 'alg' > > I am using the example config almost verbatim except for the table > names and file paths. > > What am I missing here?
I had to move the tables to /etc ; I think the reason was that the /usr filesystem was not mounted early enough at boot. Perhaps something like that is your problem as well? Is VEX a NFS mount? -- Gerard Lally
