From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 8 9:26:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9B2A37B405 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9985 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2002 17:26:13 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (66.92.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 8 Mar 2002 17:26:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3C88F434.3000108@tenebras.com> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 09:26:12 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio Reply-To: kudzu@tenebras.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020218 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Eldridge Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Need for explicit ipfw pass rule for 127.0.0.0/8 not documented? References: <20020308035156.GA329@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alan Eldridge wrote: > Did I miss the documentation? Or did the documentation get missed Not adequately documented, but... ;-) $fw allow ip from any to any via lo0 Is probably what you want or, better yet, $fw allow ip from any to any via lo0 $fw deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any $fw deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 Luigi and others have remarked that the man page is already huge, and perhaps not the best place for examples if it's to serve as a reference. Therefore, I propose that we collect some examples of the use of various features, singly and in combination, and put then in /usr/share/examples/ipfw. I'd be happy to help, since I'm in the category of non-expert and non-novice. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message