Small problem with "ipfw list"

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:20:33PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:36:15PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > Just a question:  Is the output from "ipfw list" supposed
>  > > to be in the same rule format that is accepted as input?
>  > 
>  > it is not, partly due to backward compatibility.
> 
> I see.
> 
>  > If you try "ipfw -c show" then you might have better luck though.
> 
> Unfortunately that makes things even worse.  The "dst-ip"
> word is still there, and additionally any rules containing
> "from any to any" are shortened, which is also not accepted
> as input to ipfw(8).

ok this means that i need to fix the output so that it is
in a form acceptable to be fed back to ipfw.
I'll try to come up with a patch soon (possibly using -g as
an alias for -c if needed)

cheers
luigi

> What do you think about adding a new option that lists the
> rules in a format that can be fed back as input to ipfw(8)?
> There are several tools with similar options, for example
> "stty -g".  So far -g is not used in ipfw(8), so ...
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver
> 
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