Ipfw Impossibility - Perpetual Motion Achieved!

Dave McCammon davemac11 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 7 09:30:55 PST 2004


--- "Jason C. Wells" <jcw at highperformance.net> wrote:

> Pray tell how is this report from 'ipfw show' even
> possible?
> 
> 17100   3   228 count ip from any to any
> 65535  27  1986 deny ip from any to any
> 
> If rule 17100 only counted three packets, then how
> did the very next rule 
> count 27?  I do not use 'skipto' rules.
> 
> We appear to be passing more packets out of rule
> 17100 than are going in. 
> If we can harness this energy, we can power the
> universe! :)
> 

I believe the 27 count is from boot-up before rule
17100 is loaded.



		
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