Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:23:03 -0800 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@FreeBSD.org> To: tom <mags@tom-mchugh.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: control ipfw from inside a program Message-ID: <20040116012303.GC40147@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200401152306.55243.mags@tom-mchugh.demon.co.uk> References: <200401152306.55243.mags@tom-mchugh.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:06:55PM +0000, tom wrote: > howto control ipfw from inside a program ? (sorry new): > a) exec (or other) a shell command, or your best bet. > b) program a sysctl (or other) call of some kind. > caveat: dunno much about these calls from > a program - all kind help appreciated. the interfaces is a slowly moving target. i'd avoid this unless you were constantly tracking ipfw changes (i.e. you were writing something that heavily interacts with ipfw and not just trying to add a firewall rule as part of a much larger projects). 'libipfw' is something that should be written at some point, but until we have multiple consumers of the 'api' it isn't really a priority. -- - bill fumerola / fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
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