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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:51:19 -0600
From:      Aaron D.Gifford <agifford@infowest.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw patch
Message-ID:  <20010926135120.1080E212DD@ns1.infowest.com>

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Mike Hoskins was reputed to have said:
>Some time ago I came across the attached patch for ipfw which supports
>per-session timeouts.  It applied cleanly until my last attempt to cvsup
>4.4 (still at 4.3).  It allows you to specify 'lifetimes' in your ipfw
>rules as follows:
>
>allow tcp from any to ${oip} 22 in keep-state lifetime 3600
>
>This would let ssh have a timeout of 3600, while maintaining sysctl
>timeout values for all other connections.
>
>I contacted the author, agifford@infowest.com, but have received no
>response...  and was curious if anyone else has used this, or knows if
>similar functionality exists within ipfw now.  I checked the man page and
>didn't see anything similar...

Sorry for the delay, I tend to be quite slow replying to e-mail.

Latest versions of the aforementioned patch set should always be 
available on my personal web site at:

  http://www.aarongifford.com/computers/ipfwpatch.html

Looking at -CURRENT CVS, it looks like Luigi is preparing to commit a lot 
of new ipfw stuff in the future.  I suppose I should e-mail him and ask 
if he has changed his mind about including this per-rule "lifetime" 
functionality in the future, or if the features he will be adding include 
equivalent functionality.  I like the stuff (changes he's made in CVS) I 
see so far and look forward to what's next.

Aaron out.

>
>Later,
>-Mike
>
->-
>"Information may want to be free, but fiber optic cable wants to be
> a million US dollars per mile."  --Shawn McMahon
<<snip>>



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