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Date:      Wed, 9 Jan 2002 04:21:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com>
To:        "Heimes, Rene" <rh@com-con.net>, Andrey Simonenko <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: firewalling with ipfw
Message-ID:  <20020109122111.44387.qmail@web14604.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <024601c19907$07470440$0201a8c0@itraktech.com>

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--- Andrey Simonenko <simon@simon.org.ua> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Heimes, Rene wrote:
> > 
> > > so there is no possibility of grouping ip?s that should match a special
> > > ruleset, if they cannot be treated as a "subnet"?
> > > can i perform this action with ipf? can someone point me to a good HOWTO
> > > for that?
> > >
> > 
> > IP Filter also can't do it for you. Probably you should tell us your task,
> > because I can't understand really needs of such Firewall feature.
> > 

Ruleset simplification?  Ease of maintenance?

It's a fairly common task to restrict only allow access to/from certain
hosts/subnets from/to certain other hosts/subnets.


Jerry


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