[SOLVED] Does /boot/loader.conf.local work for you ?

[dhatz]

Apparently it doesn't work on my 2.1-BETA0 … (any settings there seem to be ignored)

Setup seems OK:

grep ^loader_conf_files /boot/defaults/loader.conf
loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf /boot/loader.conf.local"

[jimp]

Yes, I've set things there and they're respected.

What are you trying to set that is "ignored" there?

Sure there isn't a syntax causing the file to be invalid?

[dhatz]

Hi jimp,

I've tried various settings, e.g. ecn:

cat /boot/loader.conf.local
net.inet.tcp.ecn.enable="1"

sysctl -a|fgrep ecn
vfs.bufreusecnt: 1326
net.inet.tcp.ecn.maxretries: 1
net.inet.tcp.ecn.enable: 0
net.inet.sctp.use_dcccecn: 1
net.inet.sctp.ecn_enable: 1
net.inet.ipsec.ecn: 0
net.inet6.ipsec6.ecn: 0

Whereas when I set them from CLI instead, it always works. Btw user miles267 seemed to have a similar problem, check http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,50484.0.html

I've checked dmesg for any errors in parsing loader.conf.local, but I couldn't find any.

I'll probably do a new 2.1-BETA install from scratch and try again.

[jimp]

If it's not a loader tunable you may not be able to set it there. If you can set it run-time, just add it to System > Admin on the Tunables tab.

[dhatz]

This worked, thanks for the tip!