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List:       freebsd-ipfw
Subject:    Re: Sanity check in ipfw(8)
From:       Michael Sierchio <kudzu () tenebras ! com>
Date:       2003-01-21 18:04:08
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:56:10PM -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> ...
>
> >>yes i honestly believe that it is better to avoid the userland code
> >>being too smart. E.g. ipfw accepts things such as
> >>
> >>	allow ip from any to any 53
> >>
> >>which matches both tcp and udp to port 53 -- ipfw1 did not accept
> >>this, and needed two rules for this very common thing.
> >
> >Shi'ite!  Documentation?
>
>
> well it's in the ipfw manpage. ...


Yes, I guess it is.  The problem is that the manpage attempts to
document two commands which are syntactically and semantically
different -- enough that they should be documented separately.



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