From owner-freebsd-ipfw Tue Feb 19 13:56: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDC437B402 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:56:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020219215603.OGMN2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:56:03 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1JLu3h41239; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:56:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:56:02 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Bing Li Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The output of "ipfw show" Message-ID: <20020219135602.D48401@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020219184838.99167.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020219184838.99167.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>; from calibing@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:48:38AM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message