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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 18:47:37 +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
 > On 01.08.16 18:43, Ian Smith wrote:
 > > Fast work Andrey, and sorry for rushing in.  I ASSumed, after reading 
 > > the new tables section in 11.0-R ipfw(8), that Kevin had run into:
 > > 
 > > 	Tables require explicit creation via create before use.
 > > 
 > > but diving - not too deeply - into the log of /head/sbin/ipfw/tables.c 
 > > from your commit, I think that statement must be out of date, at least 
 > > regarding existing ruleset table configuration?  Is that right?
 > 
 > If you want to use some new specific feature you need to create table
 > explicitly. But for old rules generic tables will be created
 > automatically (with warning).

Exactly how I was hoped it would work, thankyou ..

cheers, Ian