From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 15 02:54:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA28306 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA28301 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608150953.CAA28301@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA214482828; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 19:53:48 +1000 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: ipfw vs ipfilter? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 19:53:48 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <16927.840070508@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 14, 96 05:55:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In some mail from Jordan K. Hubbard, sie said: > > > This reminds me of programming in BASIC, way back, when you needed to > > use line numbers for GOTO's, etc, and eventually, you will run into > > the same "problem" and need to renumber. I really don't see a win > > Ah, but then all good basics eventually had a RENUMBER command (even > if hacked out by some 3rd party) for handling this for you. If you > want to implement it in a compatible fashion, I seem to remember that > it generally took base and increment arguments. :-) :-) Are you suggesting a "renumber" option for ipfw might be a good idea ? :-) Darren (do we have to continue to embaress ourselves about how well we know how to program in real BASIC ?:-)