Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:06:05 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw changes being contemplated.. Message-ID: <B0E21175-5606-4DAB-9810-BA8F162BE17B@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <46268689.1080301@elischer.org>
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On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
> I'm contemplating the following changes to functionality:
> I'd like suggestions and comments...
>
> 1/ Commit capability
> In this change you declare a new firewall,
> and modify/build it, and then you 'commit' it so that
> the whole change is atomic.
[ ... ]
> 5/
> ability to have multiple firewalls.. (extension of (1))
> ipfw new 1 ipfw rules 1 add ....
> ....
> ipfw commit 1 bridge "bridge0"
>
> different rule sets for different entry points.
> ethernet layer (Layer2), IP output, bridging, IP input, different
> input interfaces?
>
> 6/ corrolory of 5
> ability for one firewall to call into another..
> ipfw new 2 ipfw add [IP tests]
>
>
> ipfw new 1
> ipfw rules 1 add 1000 check rules 2 mac-type ipv4
> commit 2 bridge
It seems to me that IPFW2 already has these three capabilities?
From the manpage:
Also, each rule belongs to one of 32 different sets , and there
are ipfw
commands to atomically manipulate sets, such as enable,
disable, swap
sets, move all rules in a set to another one, delete all rules
in a set.
These can be useful to install temporary configurations, or to
test them.
See Section SETS OF RULES for more information on sets.
[ ... ]
SETS OF RULES
Each rule belongs to one of 32 different sets , numbered 0 to
31. Set 31
is reserved for the default rule.
By default, rules are put in set 0, unless you use the set N
attribute
when entering a new rule. Sets can be individually and atomically
enabled or disabled, so this mechanism permits an easy way to
store mul-
tiple configurations of the firewall and quickly (and
atomically) switch
between them. The command to enable/disable sets is
[ ... ]
--
-Chuck
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