Re: ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid argument

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Jeffrey D. Brower wrote:
| Greetings all!
|
| I am building a new FreeBSD box for a firewall.  The last one was running
| 3.4.31 so I guess it was time.  <grin>
|
| I get this set of messages (new to me) when I am booting:
|
|     Enabling ipfilter
|     361:ioctl(add/insert rule):File exists
|     423:ioctl(add/insert rule):File exists
|     703:ioctl(add/insert rule):File exists
|     1:ioctl(add/insert rule):File exists
|     ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid argument
|     Installing NAT rules.
|     0 entries flushed from NAT table
|     0 entries flushed from NAT list
|
| I am concerned that lines 2 through 6 are errors, but my attention is
| obviously drawn to the last one of the set of errors since it says 
"Invalid
| argument".  I can't find this on the list and Google was not my 
friend, so I
| thought I would ask you fine folks if my ship was sinking.
|
| What exactly is ipfilter telling me, do I need to be worried and what 
can I
| do to get a clean boot?

I think what IPFilter is telling you is that /etc/rc.d/ipfilter runs 
various ipfilter
commands with the -6 command line option, telling it to do something for
IPv6 but then the kernel rejects it. Try cleaning up that boot script 
and see
how you go...

Darren

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