ipfw ruleset traversal question

[Shaun T. Erickson]

I'm trying to port my linux netfilter/iptables firewall to 5.2.1-RESLEASE.

Iptables has the concept of "chains". There are three defined by the 
system: INPUT, FORWARD & OUTPUT. Packets coming into the system that are 
destined for a local process traverse the INPUT chain only, packet 
generated by the system, and leaving it, traverse the OUTPUT chain only, 
and packets that are simply passing through the system traverse the 
FORWARD chain only. One nice benefit of this, is that inbound packets 
don't have to traverse rules for outbound packets and vice-versa. This 
allows efficient grouping of rules and reduces the performance hit of 
packets having to be checked by all rules.

How can I set up my ipfw ruleset so that I can achieve that same benefit?

TIA

	-ste