Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:56:02 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bing Li <calibing@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The output of "ipfw show" Message-ID: <20020219135602.D48401@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020219184838.99167.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>; from calibing@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:48:38AM -0800 References: <20020219184838.99167.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:48:38AM -0800, Bing Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Below are a few lines from a web site
> (www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Ipfw-HOWTO):
>
> 3.1. Listing Rules
> ipfw -a list OR ipfw show
> Both will display the same information in the same way.
> The first column is the rule number,
> followed by the number of outgoing matched packets,
> followed by the number of incoming matched packets, ...
>
> I believe that the second column is the number
> of matched packets, and the third column is the traffic
> in bytes. Am I right or misunderstanding anything?
You are correct. That website is wrong.
Hmm. I don't believe ipfw(8) does actually say what the values are.
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