Re: Listening outside ipfw / program interface to ipfw

From: Vladimir Terziev (vladimir.terziev_at_sun-fish.com)
Date: 01/14/05

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    Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:17:05 +0200
To: altares@e-card.bg

            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.

                    Vladimir

    On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:07:22 +0200
    Rumen Telbizov <altares@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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