Re: ipf and tape drive not working

[Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>]

Btw...this has happened on 2 upgrades i did from 2.7 to 2.8...if people 
think it works...i suggest try connecting from outside source.....i bet
just alot of people don;t know it is working because rules are loading.



On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Richard T. Robino wrote:

> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 23:23:07 -0800
> From: Richard T. Robino <rickspam@wavedivision.com>
> To: Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, misc <misc@openbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: ipf and tape drive not working
> 
> On 2/8/01 9:17 PM, "Dan Phoenix" <dphoenix@bravenet.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I just don;t think you guys know how serious this really is?
> > Ipf is not working....firewall not protecting network...
> > has anyone seen this from upgrade from 2.7 to 2.8!!!!
> 
> fwiw, I've done that upgrade twice and haven't had any problems with normal
> DAT or ipf on two boxes upgraded from 2.7-stable to (and still tracking)
> 2.8-stable. I believe I do it according to the faq, but I'm not sure.
> 
> RTFM mknod(8). rebuilding devices in /dev "by hand" is as simple as running
> "cd /dev ; sh MAKEDEV", unless you have some special devices for special
> features not usually included. In that case follow the directions which came
> with the source for that feature. For your ipf files, make sure they didn't
> get moved to /var/backups, and verify they are really like you thought they
> used to be.
> 
> I'm using regular dump/tar/mt to work with the tapes. My tape drive is scsi
> (adaptec cards) on older micron and compaq boxes. The only problem I've ever
> had in an upgrade is that once a new GENERIC kernel came with a release that
> didn't like my apm bios. <shrug> I always take the time to at least build a
> custom kernel when building everything else.
> 
> --Rick
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote:
> > 
> >> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 04:05:38 -0800 (PST)
> >> From: Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
> >> To: misc@openbsd.org
> >> Subject: ipf and tape drive not working
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 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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