[Bug 229363] Incomplete documentation for FreeBSD ipfw

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            Bug ID: 229363
           Summary: Incomplete documentation for FreeBSD ipfw
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: doc at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: shriyogeshchandra at gmail.com

When I see the official documentation of ipfw[1] or the man pages[2] it seems
that it is sometimes incomplete. Specifically, there are a lot of options like, 

    firewall_myservices
    firewall_allowservices

etc., which can be found in many online guides[3] but **not** in the docs.
They're even discussed in the lists[4]. 

So I would like to understand if these are unofficial or undocumented options,
and if they might be arbitrarily removed at some point in the future since
they're not formally documented. More importantly, is there a single
comprehensive documentation source for ipfw, short of grokking the source code? 

  [1]: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html
  [2]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ipfw(8)
  [3]:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/recommended-steps-for-new-freebsd-10-1-servers
  [4]:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-July/272455.html

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