setting up ipfw

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jul 2 10:26:41 PDT 2003


W. D. wrote:
[ ... ]
 >>> 00050  allow tcp from any to my.ip.ad.res 22 setup
 >
 > Is there some guide to translate IPFW rules to English so that they
 > are understandable?

Well, the above could be written:

	allow tcp from any to me ssh setup

...is that better?

[ If you don't understand TCP/IP, service names/port numbers, and such, well, 
you'll need to know about such things or else you won't have necessary 
background to understand firewalls. ]

-- 
-Chuck



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