I recently had a problem with Nokia firewalls that others might like to
avoid. I added a new 2-port card, configured addresses, pulled the new
interfaces back to the SmartServer and tried to install a policy. I got
errors that appeared to be a kernel memory allocation failure, i.e. :

   FW-1: Attempting to create existing table: om_protected_group(181)
   FW-1: ld_commit: Attempting to commit unbound ld 0
   FW-1: Warning: atomic loading failed during policy replacement
   Failed to load security policy: cannot allocate memory
   Failed to load security policy: kernel memory allocation failed

on the Nokia, and an "insufficient memory" error on the Dashboard.

After all sorts of attempts at fixing it, including a complete reinstall,
it turned out that it was due to an address conflict (with an old "play"
firewall that hadn't been used for ages) on one of the new ports. Because
both addresses were RFC1918 which the SmartServer doesn't check for
uniqueness (by default), there was no warning on policy verification.
Deleting the old firewall object solved the problem.

Regards,

Dave Long

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