bin/120720: [patch] [ipfw] unbreak POLA for ipfw table list

[Vadim Goncharov]

In-Reply-To: <200802151642.m1FGgGfQ002038 at grosbein.pp.ru>	
References: <200802151642.m1FGgGfQ002038 at grosbein.pp.ru>

Hi Eugene Grosbein!

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:42:16 +0700 (KRAT); Eugene Grosbein  
<eugen at kuzbass.ru> wrote:

> The command "ipfw table 1 list" used to format table values
> associated with network addresses as 32-bit unsigned integers
> until 6.3-RELEASE. Since 6.3-RELEASE, it interprets values
> that are greater than 65535 as IP-addresses.

> This change breaks many existing applications that expect the format
> to be an integer, as it used to be since RELENG_4.
> This change is not even documented. So, it breaks POLA and should be
> corrected.

>> How-To-Repeat:

> ipfw table 1 add 1.1.1.1 $(date +%s)
> ipfw table 1 list

> This used to show something like "1.1.1.1/32 1203093427" before change
> but now it shows something like "1.1.1.1/32 71.181.191.179" instead.

Confirming. This breaks UNIX-time using scripts for many systems and was
introduced by ``ipfw fwd tablearg'' handling commit to 6.2-STABLE in May  
2007.

POLA should be unbroken as far as possible.

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