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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:15:45 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Christophe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pr=E9votaux?= <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW Max Rule Discrete Number Limit
Message-ID:  <20020403111545.A98202@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020403205923.27d35e11.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
References:  <20020403205923.27d35e11.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>

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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:59:23PM +0200, Christophe Prévotaux wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have reached the 655 firewalling rules limit (with discrete values)
> in ipfw and I was wondering why ipfw will not let the user select
> the incremental step value in rules numbering ? also it should be
> possible to renumber these rules on the fly 
> (though, i agree this is not this useful)

you know you can assign explicit numbers to rules ?
There is alot of magic you can do in userland rather than
relying on the kernel to cope with all sorts of different
user requirements...

	cheers
	luigi

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