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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:44:16 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk>
Cc:        ipfw@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c
Message-ID:  <20010321124416.A57754@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <3AB87255.B0D4EF02@freebsd-services.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:20:21AM %2B0000
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:20:21AM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
> Move to developers.
> 
[Redirected to -ipfw, see Committer's Guide for -developers usage rules]

> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > 
> > 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!
> 
> There's always people asleep in the project. This wasn't a major
> architectural change, I just thought it worthwhile for a second pair of
> eyes to look it over and Mark's more than qualified for that.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I thought about that first, but there's no bits left in the flag.
> 
Really?  0x80000000 is unused.  Or, alternatively, you may change
the IP_FW_F_COMMAND to 0x0000007F (we are unlikely to have more than
128 actions) and use 0x00000080.  I propose the name IP_FW_F_PINNED.

> This solution has minimal impact on the implementation whereas changing the
> structure is a lot more intrusive. I'd also have had to fix the userland
> parser to recognise a token for persistent rules, whereas a sysctl was
> also a minimal impact change.
> 
I think you should back this out and reimplement this.
I can do this, if you wish.  :-)

> One thing I did think would be useful though is being able to pass a
> range to flush, i.e. ipfw flush 1000-1999.
> 
Nope, the flush command should flush all rules, and probably also check
the IP_FW_F_PINNED bit in the flags.  If the latter is set, it should
delete pinned rules as well.  The same should be done for "delete".


Cheers,
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