A little bird tells me that "Charlie Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did
comment thusly:
>
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Rob Adams wrote:
>
> > "Charlie Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -f
> >
> > My understanding of the -f command is that it flushes the ruleset,
wouldnt
> > this erase any previous forwarding rules that may be added in the
future.
>
> No, Rob, it erases any forwarding rules which were added in the past.
> Which is what we want it to do. :-)
I sense you either did not watch enough Dr Who as a child to be able to deal
with time-shifted sentence structures, or you have not internalised enough
HHGTTG. :)
My point was (and still is) if you put a portfw -f rule at the start of this
template, then people will be tempted to put one at the beginning of the
next template. I noticed that Darrel caught this potential problem with his
split in two approach.
