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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.6.1 instability or can cvsup take me to 2.2?
Date: 21 Jan 1997 22:56:38 GMT
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craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) wrote:

> One question though, could IPFW give you trouble on a machine that's not
> configured as a router?

No idea on this.  If you can track down problems using DDB, we are
always grateful.

> Or, is it possible to just get a bad kernel build?

That's fairly unlikely, at least if you have cleaned out the compile
directory after changing something (as config(8) still does, much to
my personal annoyance :).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)