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Date:      Tue, 05 Oct 1999 14:06:10 -0500
From:      Jenkins.Mike@epamail.epa.gov
To:        dnelson@emsphone.com, ru@ucb.crimea.ua
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw and ports > 1023?
Message-ID:  <85256801.006877BD.00@EPAHUB2.RTP.EPA.GOV>

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I wrote:
>> How do you say "ports > 1023" in ipfw?
>> I see the port-port syntax but that is for a limited range of ports.

Dan Nelson replied:
>port 1024-65535

Ruslan Ermilov replied with ipfw(8) and:
>So, we say "1024-".

My second sentence in the original post hinted about this but ...
In the ipfw(8) manual page it says:

  "A range may only be specified as the first value, and the length
  of the port list is limited to IP_FW_MAX_PORTS (as defined
  in /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_fw.h) ports."

IP_FW_MAX_PORTS is 10 so the maximum number of ports listed is 10.
So 20-29 would be ok (and so would 20-24,50,60,70,80,90) but 1024-65535 is NOT
ok
and probably results in 1024-1033.  I think the intent is to allow a small
number
of ports on a single rule rather than having multiple rules.  Eg:

     allow tcp from any to any 25,80,79

     allow tcp from any to any 25
     allow tcp from any to any 80
     allow tcp from any to any 79

Mike




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