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From: anarcat <anarcat@tao.ca>
Subject: Re: docs/26366: ipfw(8) doesn't document which sysctl control dynamic rules
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The following reply was made to PR docs/26366; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: anarcat <anarcat@tao.ca>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/26366: ipfw(8) doesn't document which sysctl control dynamic rules
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:39:17 -0500

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 Er. I'm sorry. <Close that pr!> :)
 
 Apart from that...=20
 
 Shouldn't sysctl(8) document all sysctl? :)
 
 Anyways, sorry again for the noise.. Thank you for your politeness. :)
 
 A.
 
 On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote:
 
 > anarcat@tao.ca writes:
 > >=20
 > > >Number:         26366
 > > >Category:       docs
 > > >Synopsis:       ipfw(8) doesn't document which sysctl control dynamic =
 rules
 > >
 > > Note that it mentions sysctl(8) variables, but does not specify
 > > which. I have not been able to find the specification anywhere. In
 > > sysctl(8) or anywhere else..
 >=20
 > No offense, but you can't have looked too hard.  There's a section in
 > ipfw(8) titled ``SYSCTL VARIABLES'' which documents all the sysctls in
 > the net.inet.ip.fw tree.  Here's an excerpt:
 >=20
 > SYSCTL VARIABLES
 >      A set of sysctl(8) variables controls the behaviour of the firewall.
 >      These are shown below together with their default value and meaning:
 >=20
 >      net.inet.ip.fw.debug: 1
 >              Controls debugging messages produced by ipfw.
 >=20
 >      net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass: 1
 > [...]
 >      net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets: 256
 >=20
 >      net.inet.ip.fw.curr_dyn_buckets: 256
 >              The configured and current size of the hash table used to ho=
 ld
 >              dynamic rules.  This must be a power of 2.  The table can on=
 ly be
 >              resized when empty, so in order to resize it on the fly you =
 will
 >              probably have to flush and reload the ruleset.
 > [...]
 
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