On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Sean Berry wrote:

> 
> With an empty ipf.conf file, starting ipnat generates a panic on my LX
> with a stock kernel.  This is a (2)virgin 1.4.2 install, 32M, 2nd le
> device. Once I add the stock example to ipf.conf(1), it loads up fine.  
> I had kind of hoped this would fail generically if it were going to, or do
> anything less significant than panic.  I used to use a configuration with
> an empty ipf.conf on NetBSD/i386 1.4.1, and it didn't panic (not that
> that's relevant, but I cut and pasted the config from the one to the
> other) and it also worked on NetBSD/sparc 1.4.1 on an IPX.
> 
	I believe this was fixed for 1.4.3 - could you test the GENERIC
	kernel from the latest snapshot:
	ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/20000707-1.4.3_ALPHA

> Kindly tell me I didn't follow the directions (which I know) and that this
> is a known behaviour.  :)
> 
	This was known - hopefully it is now fixed :)

                David/absolute
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