From owner-freebsd-ipfw Mon Jan 20 21:56:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3F337B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:56:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B39A243EB2 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:56:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 71442 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2003 05:56:11 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 21 Jan 2003 05:56:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3E2CE0FA.2080301@tenebras.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:56:10 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr-fr, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" , freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sanity check in ipfw(8) References: <20030121004353.GF351@nitro.dk> <20030120165940.A65713@xorpc.icir.org> <20030121012046.GG351@nitro.dk> <20030120173223.A83271@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20030121004353.GF351@nitro.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:20:47AM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > ... > > >Ok - the extra check was only to make the user aware simple errors (that > >ipfw1 did not allow). If you don't think the checks should be there then > >I can live with that so the PR can be closed. > > > yes i honestly believe that it is better to avoid the userland code > being too smart. E.g. ipfw accepts things such as > > allow ip from any to any 53 > > which matches both tcp and udp to port 53 -- ipfw1 did not accept > this, and needed two rules for this very common thing. Shi'ite! Documentation? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message