ipfw error in last stable version freebsd 8

[Ass.Tec. Matik]

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:47:49PM -0300, Ass.Tec. Matik wrote:
>>
>>
>> > it means that you are probably using a new kernel and an old /sbin/ipfw.
>> > The new ipfw/dummynet has a different kernel/userland API to accommodate
>> > some new features, and the kernel has a compatibility layer to translate
>> > requests back and forth between the two APIs.
>> >
>>
>>
>> where this is coming from:
>>
>> ipfw0: flags=8801<UP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 65536
>
> sys/netinet/ipfw/ip_fw_log.c
>


thank's for clarification

a note in UPDATING at least would be usefull since most people don't read the
source right ;)

the new interface brought trouble into my snmp monitoring since it changed the
IF/NIC numbers ...


> Revision 200654 - (view) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
> Modified Thu Dec 17 23:11:16 2009 UTC (3 months, 1 week ago) by luigi
>
> Add some experimental code to log traffic with tcpdump,
> similar to pflog(4).
> To use the feature, just put the 'log' options on rules
> you are interested in, e.g.
>
> 	ipfw add 5000 count log ....
>
> and run
> 	tcpdump -ni ipfw0 ...
>
> net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=0 enables logging to ipfw0,
> net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1 sends logging to syslog as before.
>
> cheers
> luigi
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