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Subject:    RE: IPFilter and a Crashing IPFilter.
From:       Sasha Romanosky <Sasha.Romanosky () TELUS ! COM>
Date:       1997-09-12 17:31:38
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Yes, recovering after the crash was not a problem (although
a little unexpected). I found 3.2b4 from
ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/mirrors2/coombs.anu.edu.au/
and we'll see how it works.

cheers,
Sasha Romanosky
Digerati Literati
TELUS Advanced Communications
  sasha.romanosky@telus.com 403.543.2083
   PGP public key @ www.tac.telus.com/keys


>----------
>From: 	yousuf[SMTP:yousuf@scf-fs.usc.edu]
>Sent: 	Friday, September 12, 1997 11:31 AM
>To: 	Sasha Romanosky
>Cc: 	'yousuf'; 'ipfilter@coombs.anu.edu.au'
>Subject: 	RE: IPFilter and a Crashing IPFilter.
>
>Hi,
>
>My IPFilter has crashed only once. I have been using the package for about
>one month and it had been running just fine. I had not changed the
>configuration file of the Filter or anything so I don't know what
>happended. As I emailed before after detaching the filter in single-user
>mode and then attaching it again it is now working ok.
>
>Muhammad Khalid Yousuf
>
>
>On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Sasha Romanosky wrote:
>
>> 
>> That is exactly what happened to me.
>> 
>> How long were you running it before it rebooted the system?
>> Has it crashed since?
>> 
>> For me, I was attaching and detaching many times the previous
>> day (for testing), and the following day after only a couple 
>> attaches/detaches it rebooted the machines. 
>> In fact, both machines (for which I was testing) experienced the same
>> fate within minuted of each other. (bizarre, n'est pas?)
>> 
>> Does this make any sense to anyone??? - Help!
>> 
>> I am very impressed with the capabilities of the program and
>> would very much like to feel comfortable using it.
>> 
>> 
>> Sasha Romanosky
>> Digerati Literati
>> TELUS Advanced Communications
>>   sasha.romanosky@telus.com 403.543.2083
>>    PGP public key @ www.tac.telus.com/keys
>> 
>> 
>> >----------
>> >From: 	yousuf[SMTP:yousuf@scf-fs.usc.edu]
>> >Sent: 	Thursday, September 11, 1997 9:53 PM
>> >To: 	Sasha Romanosky
>> >Cc: 	'ipfilter@coombs.anu.edu.au'
>> >Subject: 	Re: IPFilter and a Crashing IPFilter.
>> >
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I am also using IPFilter with Solaris 2.5.1. and yes, my system also
>> >crashed about a week ago. It froze up exactly upon attaching the filter to
>> >the interface. What I did was boot from single-user mode and then disable
>> >IPFilter using command: 'ipf -F a'. Then again reboot the system normally
>> >and attach the filter by typing 'ipf <configuration file>'. I hope this
>> >works for you also.
>> >
>> >Muhammad Khalid Yousuf
>> >
>> >
>> >On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Sasha Romanosky wrote:
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> I am wanting to know if anyone has ever had any problems with
>> >> IPFilter crashing a Sun box running Solaris 2.5.1.
>> >> 
>> >> I had tested this program out for a while and it seemed great.
>> >> Then one day two of the servers I was using (Sparc 5 and Ultra1)
>> >> crashed. Upon reboot it froze when attaching IPfilter.
>> >> 
>> >> Hopefully it's just me and not the machine or the program.
>> >> 
>> >> Has anyone encountered anything like this??
>> >> If so, what's the fix??
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> cheers,
>> >> Sasha Romanosky
>> >> Digerati Literati
>> >> TELUS Advanced Communications
>> >>   sasha.romanosky@telus.com 403.543.2083
>> >>    PGP public key @ www.tac.telus.com/keys
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >
>> >
>> 
>
>

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