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List:       ipfilter
Subject:    Re: IPFilter 4.1.15
From:       Horst Simon <hsimon () optusnet ! com ! au>
Date:       2006-11-03 8:47:50
Message-ID: 200611031947.51071.hsimon () optusnet ! com ! au
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On Friday 03 November 2006 06:10, Darren Reed wrote:
> My apologies for the recent problems in compiling IPFilter and having
> to release a whole new version just to address that.  Thanks to those
> who brought the problem to my attention early.  Getting it to compile
> cleanly on every platform is a lot of work.  One day I'll have a system
> built with lots of virtual machines, one for each version I want to
> do a test build on.
>
> I've added one significant featurism here between 4.1.14 and 4.1.15:
> automated flushing of the NAT table if it fills up.  This works roughly
> the same as for the state table where it will try and remove lots of
> old dead wood, if it can.
>
> http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip_fil4.1.15.tar.gz
>
> Darren
>
> 4.1.15 - Released 03 November 2006
>
> Add in automatic flushing of NAT, like state, table if it fills up too much
>
> Update comments in the code for NAT checksum adjustments
>
> Fix compiling on FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0
>
> prevent panics from read/write IOs trying to use uninitialised structures
>
> Newer NetBSD should use malloc() instead of MALLOC() in the kernel where
> the size is not staticly defined
>
> Some gcc warning message cleanup from NetBSD
>
> Missing include for <sys/filio.h> on Solaris for poll work
>
> NetBSD now uses opt_ipfilter.h, not opt_ipfilter_log.h
>
> 4.1.14 - Released 04 October 2006

I compile and installed 4.1.15 on Solaris 10 and it works, but when I reload 
the rules I get an error, but it still works.

 /usr/sbin/ipf -Fa -f /etc/opt/ipf/ipf.conf
1:ioctl(add/insert rule): File exists

The rules files haven't changed

Regards,
Horst Simon
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