[rescue] IPFILTER woes

[Phil Schilling]

Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> before i go at the IPFILTER mailing list, i want to stop here and ask some
> questions.
> 
> if i can't resolve my IPFILTER issue, then i'm going to need a good low cost
> firewall solution.  needs to run on Solaris 8.
> 
> ok, so here's what happens.  the machine locks dead.  no panic, just stopped.
> i can break to the rom and reboot the machine.  it happens at seemingly random
> intervals.  i saw the posts about ipmon hanging solaris, but i have tried it
> with ipmon running and without ipmon running.  hangs both ways.
> 
> i originally though it was a hardware issue, so i swapped the then current
> firewall (sparc10) with the new firewall (ultra1) and it still happens.  i
> remember that is NEVER happened with my sparc5 when it was the firewall.
> 
> i'm going to be running production sites on this setup, so i cannot afford to
> have this machine crashing all the time.  does anyone have any clues at all?
> 
> thanks!

Have to say run ipfilter on bsd based sparcs (15 right now) all the time and
not seen this.  Kind of leans me to a solaris issue.  sorry no more help than
that. 

Phil

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