Command to "dump" firewall rules to be persistent across reboots.

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

Hey all, I'm experimenting with ipfw as means of controlling some 
interesting anomalies like with portsenty or some ssh anti-brute-force 
scripts (i.e. adding bad hosts to tables, adding deny rules 
for certain hosts, etc), and I was wondering if there was (either in the 
form of a script, or a builtin command I can't find) some way to just 
"dump" all the ipfw data (pipes, queues, tables, etc) to a single file to 
be re-read on boot?

I'd be willing to try and write something like this if it doesn't already 
exist, but I'm rather surprised it doesn't.

-Dan Mahoney

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