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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:37:15 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW: delete range of rules?
Message-ID:  <20061129203714.GD69797@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061129145422.I70323@prime.gushi.org>
References:  <20061129145422.I70323@prime.gushi.org>

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In the last episode (Nov 29), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said:
> Hey all, the ipfw man page says rules can be deleted individually or
> in groups, but I don't see (other than the sets) an easy way to craft
> deletion of rules in a range (for example, 500-550).

You could expand the rules before calling ipfw:

  ipfw delete $(jot - 500 550 1)

or, if you use zsh:

  ipfw delete {500..550}

It would also be possible to extend the ipfw 'delete' rule parser to
handle ranges.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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