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Subject: Re: setting up ipfw
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On Wednesday 02 July 2003 11:00 am, W. D. wrote:
>
> Is there some guide to translate IPFW rules to English so that they
> are understandable?

They already are. Each arglist to ipfw(8) is a sentence. ipfw(8) is only 
an interpreter of those instructions which writes the instructions in a 
form ipfw(4) can understand. Or reads them back in a form you can 
understand.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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