Re: ipf and tape drive not working

[Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>]

negative on that houston



On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Seth Arnold wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 04:26:48 -0800
> From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>
> To: Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
> Subject: Re: ipf and tape drive not working
> 
> Dan, having never done this before..... I can't promise to know
> anything. :)
> 
> I suggest trying: cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV all
> 
> * Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com> [010208 04:11]:
> > 
> > After an upgrade from 2.7 to 2.8 following fact properly.....
> > tape drive and ipf don;t work.
> > The only last 2 things I did not do according to the upgrade fact are
> > upgrade /dev/ and /var by hand as per the FAQ.
> > 
> > dmesg does not even show device st* being detected.
> > When ipfilter starts.....ipfstat -io shows all the rules there....
> > ipnat does work....but the firewall is not working....any host can connect
> > to the machine.
> > 
> > My guess is after the upgrade both of these problems are due to the /dev
> > directory. My question is what does upgrade /dev by hand entail?
> > No docs were provided for this.
> > 
> > I am relatively new to this list and have not seen any emails from it yet
> > so I hope someone has run into this.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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