From owner-freebsd-ipfw Wed Jan 8 18:21:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C524B37B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.netcabo.pt (smtp.netcabo.pt [212.113.174.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2279243E4A for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:21:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hununu@netcabo.pt) Received: from cheetah ([213.22.35.171]) by smtp.netcabo.pt with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 9 Jan 2003 02:20:38 +0000 From: "Bruno Afonso" Organization: Artists, Inc. To: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 02:21:10 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Feature Request Reply-To: hununu@netcabo.pt Message-ID: <3E1CDC96.24785.27A7458@localhost> In-reply-to: <20030109000005.GB15778@smnolde.com> References: <200301082231.JAA17004@lightning.itga.com.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jan 2003 02:20:38.0224 (UTC) FILETIME=[B30C0D00:01C2B785] Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 Jan 2003 at 19:00, Scott M. Nolde wrote: > I understand that rules can be added and removed, but in most cases, once > the ruleset is "stable" nothing much changes. Having a relative skip > would help me since I have written a number of ipfw-based firewall scripts > which could benefit from a relative skip. If you happen to need to make some quick changes, you will not see it that way. You will have to re-read the entire ruleset, calculate the skips, etc. imho, this feature would used by 1% of users. I honestly can't think of any big advantages in the long run at all. Bruno Miguel Afonso, Biological Eng. student. brunomiguel at dequim dot ist dot utl dot pt D.E.Q. @ I.S.T. - Portugal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message