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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:48:17 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        imp@harmony.village.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c ip_fw.h src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw.c 
Message-ID:  <52786.982090097@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:41:09 PST." <200102131841.f1DIfEJ31419@iguana.aciri.org> 

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In message <200102131841.f1DIfEJ31419@iguana.aciri.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
>> > In message <52435.982085938@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>> > : A forwarded packet would encounter three lists of rules:
>> > : 
>> > : 	Input list on arrival interface
>> > : 	forwarding list
>> > : 	Output list on departure interface
>> > 
>> > That would make my life easier here.  Right now I have a shell script
>> > with nested for loops to prevent bogus packets coming in (and no
>> > filtering at all going out).  When there's 8 interfaces, it gets ugly
>> > fast.
>> 
>> What you would actually need is a rule (which to the best
>> of my knowledge does not exist now) that lets you check
>... and my knowledge proved to be wrong:  
>
>        ipfw add ... out recv any 
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>does what i wanted. So you can jump to your "forwarding list"
>with a rule like
>
>	ipfw add skipto 10000 ip from any to any out recv any
>
>and have code your access-list 10000 as your forwarding ruleset.

I still think having separate lists, with well defined insert
points would make it a lot easier for people.

I generally meet a lot of people who have trouble with the
fact that a forwarded packet gets filteret twice...

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