From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 16 20:57:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA10226 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:57:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA10220; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA17973; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma017971; Thu Jan 16 20:57:01 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA27895; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:57:01 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199701170457.UAA27895@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: ipfw cannot do this... In-Reply-To: <199701161206.OAA14163@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> from Reinier Bezuidenhout at "Jan 16, 97 02:06:36 pm" To: rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za (Reinier Bezuidenhout) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:57:00 -0800 (PST) Cc: archie@whistle.com, ejs@bfd.com, nate@mt.sri.com, phk@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Actually, what I really want is an ipfw add skip XXX ... where if > > > something matches the rule, skip all other rules below XXX (yes, I always > > > number my rules:-) > > > > Just use the rule "ipfw accept". The packet is permitted and remaining > > rules are ignored. > > Maybe he means just jumping a few rules and then continue enforcing the > rules from XXX onward. Ah, that would be cool. But "goto" would be easier to read/comprehend than "skip". That is, assuming you really want to add a "goto"... :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com