Subject: Re: pf and inet6
To: Courtney R. Spencer <cspencer@mindspring.com>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/27/2005 09:16:45
On 5/27/05, Courtney R. Spencer <cspencer@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Fri May 27, 2005 at 08:43:29AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > Looks like, as of NetBSD-2.0.2, you must have the option INET6 in the
> > kernel config in order for the pf module to load into the kernel.
> >
> > I had asked earlier how to turn off inet6 entirely without recompiling
> > (meaning I don't want to see inet6 in netstat, etc), and apparently
> > there isn't a way. So I recompiled, and found that pf wouldn't load.
> >
> > I didn't see any threads about it after some minor searching, so I
> > figured I would start one so someone might find it.
> >
> > I hope this won't be a problem when pf becomes part of the regular syst=
em.
>=20
>=20
> Using 3.99.3 with pf and no issues with custom kernel not including
> INET6. Mind you, I don't enable lkm so pf (as well as the rest of
> userland) was rebuilt without INET6 support.
This is a production box so I'm just following the release cycle with
it. I haven't built off of current for a while now, but this is good
news. Thanks.
Andy