Re: kern/50168: Frequent lockups and panics with NetBSD 7/amd64, may be ipfilter-related

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/50168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/50168: Frequent lockups and panics with NetBSD 7/amd64, may
 be ipfilter-related
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 00:12:06 +0000

 On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:00:02PM +0000, netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost wrote:
  > I realised the machines were rock-solid in single-user mode and
  > eventually tracked it down to ipfilter rules being loaded. With
  > ipfilter=NO or a simple "pass in all" & "pass out all" ipf.conf,
  > the machine runs fine. It is also reliable with NAT enabled, but
  > loading the previous ipf.conf will cause a freeze within a minute
  > or so.
 
 Using npf instead might be an expedient workaround... :-|
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost