From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 4:21:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14604.mail.yahoo.com (web14604.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3011637B419 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 04:21:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020109122111.44387.qmail@web14604.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.156.9.15] by web14604.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 Jan 2002 04:21:11 PST Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 04:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jerry Murdock Subject: Re: firewalling with ipfw To: "Heimes, Rene" , Andrey Simonenko Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <024601c19907$07470440$0201a8c0@itraktech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Andrey Simonenko 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message