From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 4: 7:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.com-con.com (mail.com-con.com [212.6.142.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8793A37B41A for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 04:07:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from Exchange2000.com-con.ag (exchange2000.com-con.net [212.6.164.8]) by mail.com-con.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/ComCon-20000118) with ESMTP id OAA32710 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:22:24 +0100 Subject: AW: firewalling with ipfw MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:06:33 +0100 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: firewalling with ipfw Thread-Index: AcGZAwUYX3JH9P58Su+dkHBZ8LLIgQAAC0lQ From: "Heimes, Rene" To: 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 >> so there is no possibility of grouping ip?s that should match a special >> ruleset, if they cannot be treated as a "subnet"? >> can i perform this action with ipf? can someone point me to a good HOWTO >> for that? >> >IP Filter also can't do it for you. Probably you should tell us your task, >because I can't understand really needs of such Firewall feature. OK, let=B4s try... There is one half Class-C Network (out of 16 others....) There are a several groups of servers and workstations with different inbound/ outbound rulesets: - Webservers - Application Servers - Full Access Workstations - Restricted Access Workstations and finally - No Access Workstations Each group matches to non-coherent IP-Addresses. Right now, because i wrote each ruleset for almost every single ip, there is a 70k large rc.firewall file that affects system throughput heavily. That=B4s my problem - understandable now? How can i make this file smaller? How can i aggregate rulesets and ip=B4s??? TIA Ren=E9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message