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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:59:45 +0200
From:      Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Updating ipfw at dhcp induced ip address change.
Message-ID:  <20000619105945.F26533@draenor.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000619125418.A2251@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:54:18PM %2B0300
References:  <20000619003156.A642@hades.hell.gr> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006171503010.38057-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net> <20000619125418.A2251@hades.hell.gr>

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:54:18PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> The only case where I can think of manual intervention as being
> necessary with a finished ipfw setup is when you have rules that log
> packets, and a logamount that limits how many times this rule will be
> logged.  In such a case, after a while, you might have to run
> 
> 	# ipfw zero
> 
> only to make sure that the hit count of every rule is zeroed again.
> This does not mean that without "ipfw zero" the rule does not work,
> though.  It does work, as long as it's there.  It simply does not log
> rule hits any more to syslogd.

Yes, this is something that confused me in the beginning as well.  You
can also use "ipfw resetlog" to do this.  :) 

I just run it from cron every day.  :)

Cheers,
Marc


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