Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:41:12 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "ipfw move oldrulenum newrulenum" revised
Message-ID:  <20010821184112.E313@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010822014708.A11739@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>; from alex@big.endian.de on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:47:08AM %2B0200
References:  <20010822014708.A11739@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:47:08AM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 18 months ago I already wrote "ipfw move", but I didn't like that version.
> 
> I now revised it.
> It adds "ipfw move oldrule newrule" stuff, done completely in userland
> (this also means, transfer stats are discarded, though I don't know
> why the kernel's add-function does this:  the values are even
> given back to the setsockopt call.).
> I also haven't yet added dummynet support, and the manpage update
> is still outstanding.
> 
> Comments?

Seems like this is awfully trivial to script to worry about making
switch for ipfw(8),

  #!/bin/sh

  ipfw add "$2" `ipfw list "$1" | cut -d" " -f2-` &&
  ipfw delete "$1"

I'm sure someone could reduce it even further to a shell alias.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010821184112.E313>