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From: "Joe Sotham" <joe@dubium.com>
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Subject: Re: how to aggregate rules using ipfw2 ? Follow-up, Why Aggregate?
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Markie said:

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> ipfw add allow ip from any to { 192.168.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/8 }

Why aggregate?  Is it more efficient?

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