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From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@ste-land.com>
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Subject: Re: My ipfilter rules.
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I wrote:

> I was wondering if some of you, who are good at, would critique my 
> rules.
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> Here's the file: http://www.ste-land.com/rules.html

So far, I've gotten these suggestions:

Apply the bogon list to the outbound path.
Compress my blocking of netbios junk to one rule.
Move bad options & flags check to head of list.

Any other suggestions?

Question: Is there some way I can have all outbound packets skip being 
tested by rules for inbound packets, and vice versa?

	-ste