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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:12:37 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rc.firewall change comments request
Message-ID:  <20010724121237.A12846@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B5C8F47.5050300@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:55:35PM -0400
References:  <3B5C8F47.5050300@lmc.ericsson.se>

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On Mon 2001-07-23 (16:55), Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote:
> I find that using a custom ruleset is a pain in the current rc.firewall 
> setup.
> 
> For example, since alternate setups are sourced using "ipfw" instead of 
> the shell, you do not have access to valuable variables and 
> conditionals, being limited to ipfw' syntax.

You can use the '-p' option to ipfw to specify a preprocessor.  The man
page says a bit more.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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