Listening outside ipfw / program interface to ipfw

[Bill Moran]

Vladimir Terziev <vladimir.terziev at sun-fish.com> wrote:

> 
> 	I have an old FreeBSD 4.3 and the man page of ipfirewall(4)
> describes the C api for manipulation of IP filtering rules. I'm not
> sure the C api interface in 4.10 is still the same as in 4.3, but i
> suggest you to try. Just find the man page from somewhere.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfirewall&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE&format=html

The www site archives all versions of man pages.

> 
> 		Vladimir
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:07:22 +0200
> Rumen Telbizov <altares at e-card.bg> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > >>2) Is there an api to ipfw that will let me manipulate rules, query 
> > >>stats etc?  I need something faster than running the command line binary?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, you should look at the ``SEE ALSO'' section in ipfw(8) manual page.
> > > ipfirewall(4) is what you are looking for, but looking at ipfw(8)
> > > source code might help too.
> > 
> > On what version of FreeBSD are you looking the
> > ipfirewall(4) man page?
> > 
> > Recently I needed the C api to ipfw, but it
> > turns out that ipfirewall(4) man page no longer
> > describes it. This is on 5.3-STABLE and 4.10-STABLE.
> > I also searched in google and I think I had found
> > a post saying that currently the only way to manipulate/use
> > firewall rules is via ifpw(8) command.
> > 
> > If someone can provide me a reference to the C api
> > of ipfw I will be thankfull.
> > 
> > Rumen Telbizov
> > 
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