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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:21:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Christophe =?ISO-8859-1?B?UHLpdm90YXV4?= <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewall rules renumbering or rule number step
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204031118260.21569-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020402200846.6c8793bf.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Christophe [ISO-8859-1] Pr=E9votaux wrote:

> Hi
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> I have reached the 655 firewalling rules limit (with discrete values)
> in ipfw and I was wondering why ipfw will not let the user select
> the incremental step value in rules numbering ? also it should be
> possible to renumber these rules on the fly=20
> (though, i agree this is not this useful)

If you do yuor own numberring you an certainly do more than that..

a 'renumber' wouldn't be that hard I think.. patches accepted :-)

basicaly..=20

pass 1:
ensure the 'skipto' caches are all filled out...
pass 2:
renumber...
pass3:
change the numbers on skipto commands to the new number pointed to
by the cached pointer.


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