FreeBSD Port: ipfwcount-0.2.1_1

[Mike Todd]

Please excuse this question if it is not in your specific area - and 
please let me know if not and possibly where to send the question to 
get a more specific answer.

I have been using FreeBSD, and contributing where possible, since 
version 4.0 and support a number of blind Internet users, depending on 
FreeBSD and IPFW to reduce the challenges they must face, especially 
from email spoofs and other incursions that are challenges even to 
fully sighted persons.

The one question I have regarding IPFW is how many rules may be 
attributed to a single rule number.  The manual only states that 
multiple rules may be assigned to a single number.  I am certain that 
number must be less than the 4+ million possible IPv4 IP addresses 
that may be blocked by an IPFW rule.  But just how large a number of 
items may a single rule number be used to accommodate?

Mike Todd
President, Mike Todd Associates - www.MikeTodd.com
Supporting the Digital Coast

President, Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter - www.ISOC-LA.org
  mtodd at isoc-la.org

Founder, Digital Divide Task Force, www.ddtf.org (undergoing updates)
  miketodd at ddtf.org

Western Research Application Center, Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California

Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law
Pepperdine University School of Law

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