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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: -stable - any problems reported ?
Date: 7 Mar 1996 16:45:40 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <4hh5nr$dd1@parnas.mimuw.edu.pl>,
Jaroslaw Bazydlo <jarekb@pap.waw.pl> wrote:
>Does anyone know about problems with the newest -stable ???

There were some problems with the Adaptec 284X series just fixed
recently, but otherwise no problems.

 I've supped it
>yesterday and it srashed my router ;-( I used the same config file
>buu with FIREWALL options set up. Could FIREWALL options affect -stable:
>
>options         IPFIREWALL         
>options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
>options         IPACCT  
>
>After booting new kernel my Free box lost TCP/IP Activity (routing table was 
>filled in a proper way) but nothing worked. It is a router which worked just
>fine with previous -stable and I had no problems.

Your router is now much more secure.  If you read the CVS commit email
(which  all folks not running a release version are asked to do) you'd
know that IPFW was recently modified to remove a # of holes in it, so
now it disables *ALL* IP traffic unless told otherwise.  See the recent
discussion in the mailing lists (which you should be subscribed to) on
why this was done.

You'll need to re-install and read the new ipfw(8) man page as well.

>PS. Yes, i posted this letter to freebsd-stable@freebsd.org but got no answer.
>    If anyone need some tcpdump or anything else please let me now.

I never saw any messages on the stable mailing list as of this Thursday
morning.

*PLEASE* folks, if you are going to be running non-released version, you *must*
get on the mailing lists.


Nate
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