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Subject: Re: dummynet dropping too many packets
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rihad wrote:

> so the rules are silently failing without any trace in the log files
> - I only saw the errors at the console.
> 

It turns out to be quite easy to fix the logging:

from /etc/syslog.conf:
# uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log
#console.info                                    /var/log/console.log

but the sysctl->ipfw rc inconsistency there still is.