Re: Cant start ipf

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I can't  mount the CD that has the sets on it.
I will get the latest copy of Netbsd*HEAD...

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 2:27 AM Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Todd,
>
> Well, to fix this problem you need to get the HEAD version of the ipf
> binary. If you already have all of the HEAD source code, you could go to
> /usr/src/sbin/ipf and run make and that will build the correct binary.
> If not, you could download base.tar.?z for HEAD and run:
>
> tar -xzvpf base.tar.?z *ipf*
>
> That would extract any files with ipf in the name (in their
> subdirectories - in this case sbin, so it will create ./sbin/ipf*). Then
> try to run "./ipf -f /etc/ipf.conf" (to use the local ipf rather than
> the one that's in /sbin and see if it works. If so, you're done. Save
> the old ipf and place the new ipf in /sbin. Then the rc.d script should
> work fine.
>
> If not then you could run ldd against the ipf binary to show what
> libraries are needed. It might be possible to unpack those libraries
> (assuming there's no conflict with existing libraries). But, you
> probably should just do an in-place upgrade so all of your binaries
> match the kernel. There's instructions in the history of this list that
> will walk you through that.
>
> Since I was right about the problem, I'm cc'ing the list again. Sorry
> about the top posting, the mail client I was using before has mucked up
> the formatting so I can't post at the bottom :(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason M.
>
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> On Jun 26, 2021, at 9:59 PM, Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost
> <mailto:tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>> wrote:
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>     Exactly, Jason. Ideas? I also  upgraded the rest of the software.
>     This is a first for me.
>
>     On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 9:01 PM Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost> wrote:
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>         I'm guessing it means the ipf binary (named ipf) version doesn't
>         match the kernel version of ipf. Are you by any chance running a
>         HEAD kernel with 9.x userland (the userland comes from
>         base.tar.?x, and the other sets.) Thanks, Jason M. Get BlueMail
>         for Android On Jun 26, 2021, at 5:56 PM, Todd Gruhn
>         <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>             I made some changes to my ipf rulebase. Then I deleted
>             /var/log/ipmonlog ; and did "touch ipmonlog" /bin/ksh
>             /etc/rc.d/ipfilter start Enabling ipfilter. 0:open device:
>             Device not configured 0:SIOCFRENB: Bad file descriptor open
>             device: Device not configured User/kernel version check
>             failed open device: Device not configured User/kernel
>             version check failed 0:1:ioctl(add/insert rule)
>             0:3:ioctl(add/insert rule) 0:4:ioctl(add/insert rule)
>             0:6:ioctl(add/insert rule) 0:7:ioctl(add/insert rule)
>             0:8:ioctl(add/insert rule) 0:10:ioctl(add/insert rule) Whats
>             with the 'kernel-version check failed' ? I am currently
>             running NetBSD-9.*-HEAD
>