Dummynet pipe causing system to lock up

[Spadge]

Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:

> for ipfw man, BUGS section:
>      Rules which use uid, gid or jail based matching should be used only if
>      debug.mpsafenet=0 to avoid possible deadlocks due to layering violations
>      in its implementation.

Oleg Bulyzhin wrote:

 > sysctl debug.mpsafenet value?
 >

Thanks to you both, you were both spot-on absolutely correct.

spadge at tobermory$ cat /boot/loader.conf
debug.mpsafenet=0

That fixed it.

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