From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 18:37:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6C137B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:37:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from tigger.pacehouse.com (adsl-63-202-82-36.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.82.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1419343ED1 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jepace@pobox.com) Received: from tigger.pacehouse.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tigger.pacehouse.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBI2bYe3062748 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jepace@pobox.com) Received: from localhost (jepace@localhost) by tigger.pacehouse.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id gBI2bYOP062745 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:37:34 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: tigger.pacehouse.com: jepace owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:37:34 -0800 (PST) From: James Pace X-X-Sender: jepace@tigger.pacehouse.com Reply-To: James Pace To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ipfw and rule 65535 Message-ID: <20021217183421.I3893-100000@tigger.pacehouse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here is the end of the output from 'ipfw show': 04000 0 0 deny log ip from any to any 65535 91 8227 deny ip from any to any Can anyone explain why the last rule is getting hit? I was under the impression that the rules are traversed in order, so 4000 should catch anything that -1 would. This is FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE: Sun Nov 10 10:42:32 PST 2002 Thanks! -James -- James Pace To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message