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Date:      Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:42:29 +0300
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com>
To:        Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw fwd and ipfw allow
Message-ID:  <4C864145.80805@gmx.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100907110033.GA51618@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
References:  <20100822052550.GA42346@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>	<20100907090012.GA48608@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>	<4C8616F0.5010401@gmx.com> <20100907110033.GA51618@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>

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On 9/7/2010 2:00 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
>>> Am I asking something unreasonable?
>>
>> Not really, but if you ask, one could say that IPFW is a "first
>> match wins" firewall, so a fwd or an allow action would be the
>> terminal one. You must design your rules accordingly.
>>
>> There is also the skipto action which can alter the way packets
>> flow through the rules.
>>
>> Could you describe in a conrete example what you're trying to
>> achieve?
>
> I want forwarded packets to create a dynamic "allow" rule.
>

You can combine fwd and keep-state. Could you be more specific?




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