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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:56:28 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: setting up ipfw
Message-ID:  <200307021456.28271.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030702105854.05756080@209.152.117.178>
References:  <03e401c3403b$959b58e0$1b41d5cc@nitanjared> <5.1.0.14.2.20030702105854.05756080@209.152.117.178>

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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.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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