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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:54:12 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c
Message-ID:  <20010321105412.B47802@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103210819.f2L8JWm19214@freefall.freebsd.org>; from paul@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:19:32AM -0800
References:  <200103210819.f2L8JWm19214@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:19:32AM -0800, Paul Richards wrote:
> paul        2001/03/21 00:19:32 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/netinet          ip_fw.c 
>   Log:
>   Only flush rules that have a rule number above that set by a new
>   sysctl, net.inet.ip.fw.permanent_rules.
>   
>   This allows you to install rules that are persistent across flushes,
>   which is very useful if you want a default set of rules that
>   maintains your access to remote machines while you're reconfiguring
>   the other rules.
>   
>   Reviewed by:	Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
>   
You asked for a review and committed this while many of us were asleep!

What I would really prefer is if we had a flag that marked individual
rules as permanent.  Then flush command would skip these rules, and
another flush command would ignore this flag.


Cheers,
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