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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:56:02 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Bing Li <calibing@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The output of "ipfw show"
Message-ID:  <20020219135602.D48401@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020219184838.99167.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>; from calibing@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:48:38AM -0800
References:  <20020219184838.99167.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:48:38AM -0800, Bing Li wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Below are a few lines from a web site
> (www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Ipfw-HOWTO):
> 
>  3.1. Listing Rules
>  ipfw -a list OR ipfw show
>  Both will display the same information in the same way.
>  The first column is the rule number,
>  followed by the number of outgoing matched packets,
>  followed by the number of incoming matched packets, ...
> 
> I believe that the second column is the number
> of matched packets, and the third column is the traffic
> in bytes. Am I right or misunderstanding anything?

You are correct. That website is wrong.

Hmm. I don't believe ipfw(8) does actually say what the values are.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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