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From: Greg Skafte <skafte@worldgate.ca>
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Subject: Re: could this be a sysctl?
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In-Reply-To: <20001027024927.I37870@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from billf@chimesnet.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:49:27AM -0400
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shows me for not looking in the PR database .... I don't think of
enhancements as P(roblem)R(eports)..... <blush>

I was mostly just thinking aloud before I submitted my own PR with
patches .... but hey .....



Quoting Bill Fumerola (billf@chimesnet.com)
On Subject: Re: could this be a sysctl?
Date: Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:49:27AM -0400

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:21:15PM -0600, Greg Skafte wrote:
> 
> > I was contemplating could the rule autoincrement number be changed to
> > a sysctl? ..... instead of using shell script math, or having to edit
> > ip_fw.c to change the default from 100 to somethingelse.   
> > 
> > in my firewall scripts it would be nice to just do a 
> > 
> > 	sysctl -w  net.inet.ip.fw.countincrement = number
> > 
> > to change the increment value from the 100 default ....
> 
> There already is a PR (assigned to me) that does this. It works and all
> I need to do is give it a onceover and commit it.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
>                 billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
> 
> 
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