I am absolutely sure, as its on a completely fresh system.

ipf: IP Filter: v3.4.29 (336)
Kernel: IP Filter: v3.4.29



----- Original Message -----
From: "Maxime Henrion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: Ethernet (xl) will not transmit or receive


: Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer wrote:
: > Ive run into the exact same problem on about 8 machines now, all running
: > different network cards.  The network will just simply not work if I
have
: > IPFILTER built into the kernel.  On some of the machines, I started
getting
: > "No route to host".  This has happened on the following network cards:
: >
: > 3COM 3C905C
: > 3COM 3C450 *yes, 450*
: > Linksys LNE100TX v4
: > Linksys LNE100TX v5
: > NETGEAR Fast 100
: > Intel Pro 10/100+
: > Intel Pro 10/100/1000 (gigabit over copper)
: >
: > Im going to assume that since it's not on a specific card, it's not
: > something with the drivers for that card. The only thing I could do was
: > deinstall IPFILTER.  I tried wiping the ARP tables (showed incomplete
arp
: > entries for all hosts) and even redoing the routing table.  The only
thing
: > that I could get that would fix it was removing ipfiter.  I have another
: > 5.0-CURRENT machine (FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Wed Jan 29 17:55:34 CST
2003
: > root@edge:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/edge  i386) that is NOT having this
problem.
: > It's something done fairly recently that has caused this.  Im going to
go
: > through and see if I cant find some differences between the source for
that
: > version and this one: 5.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Feb 19 10:28:49 GMT 2003
: > root@ender:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ender  i386
: >
: > The second one (last one I gave uname for) is the most recent to have
the
: > problems. As you can see, it's source from earlier this week.  There's
no
: > errors on dmesg nor are there any errors anywhere.  It just seems that
if
: > IPFILTER is enabled, the network devices are completely inoperable.   I
know
: > you're going to ask how I have the rules setup, and I have tried many
: > variations.  The first I tried is a DEFAULT_BLOCK using a working
ruleset
: > from a 4.7-R-p3 machine.  After that failed, I tried doing a default
allow,
: > and it still did it.  The only feasible way to get the machine online
with
: > that source is to rip out IPFILTER.   Anyone having similiar issues?
: >
: > Any comments/suggestions would be more than welcome, as having boxes on
the
: > network with no firewall is just asking for trouble ;)
:
: Are you sure the ipfilter version of your kernel is in sync with your
: userland ipfilter utility?  ipf -V will show you both versions.
:
: Cheers,
: Maxime
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