Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:45:44 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting@freebsd.lublin.pl> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/77570: [PATCH] ipfw: Multiple rules may have the same number. Message-ID: <20050219024544.GA86942@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050216184051.GA30070@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> References: <200502161520.j1GFKGiU037098@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050216184051.GA30070@shellma.zin.lublin.pl>
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--qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:40:51PM +0100, Pawel Malachowski wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:20:16PM +0000, Maxim Konovalov wrote: >=20 > > > I thought it was some kind of a side effect in rule manipulation co= de, but > > > if some reasons push people to use this feature, feel free to close= this PR > > > (and thanks for reaction). > > =20 > > This is just my opinion. I'd suggest to discuss your patch in -net or > > -ipfw maillists and ask people what they think. >=20 > I would vote this is a feature, not a bug. I personally rely on this > behaviour in some of my ipfw rulesets. So do I. It makes it easy to remove a related group of rules all at once. Kris --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCFqhYWry0BWjoQKURAigLAJ44S2xifFk59TFVle8ZYyvrLcRGJQCdFtDI ddtAHVIqxaNCUvrTUy1fdwk= =I4a2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS--
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