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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: IPFW Syntax Question
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:29:16 -0700
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What is the correct syntax to get ipfw to load rules from a file?  The
man page indicates that it's simply:

ipfw /path/filename

However when I try, I get this error:

ipfw: bad arguments, for usage summary ``ipfw''

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Drew


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