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Date:      Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:12:22 +0400
From:      "Nickolay A.Kritsky" <nkritsky@internethelp.ru>
To:        Jason Borkowsky <jcborkow@tcpns.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: ipfw pipe command
Message-ID:  <14735363670.20010717191222@internethelp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107170947160.11890-100000@bemused.tcpns.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107170947160.11890-100000@bemused.tcpns.com>

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Hello Jason,

Tuesday, July 17, 2001, 5:50:35 PM, you wrote:


JB> Thank you for your response. After playing around with ipfw, I discovered
JB> what the problem was:

JB> I was trying various combinations of pipes, and it seems if you do not
JB> delete your pipe (using ipfw pipe delete) before trying to recreate the
JB> pipe, the pipe seems to go unused.
Unused? I 'm afraid that I don't quite understand you... How does it affect
 ipfw functionality?

JB> So, for example, when I update my firewall rules, I do an ipfw flush, and
JB> then dump in the new rules. Now, instead, I have to do an ipfw pipe
JB> delete, then an ipfw flush, and then dump in the new rules including the
JB> new pipe.

You know, I am the real ipfw newbie, but I am using pipes during about
5 months. I do ipfw flush quite often (I like to play with that tool
:)) , but never did "ipfw pipe delete", and never noticed nothing strange
in pipe behavior. Now I am quite confused? Are you sure, that doing
"ipfw flush" does not delete the pipes? May be FreeBSD guys should add
"ipfw pipe delete" line to standart /etc/rc.firewall, just before the
"ipfw flush"? IMHO this will save many newbies from confusion ;)

Good luck

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