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