On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:43:24PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
...
> > > It sounds like the only way to solve this issue is to improve/fix the
> > > msgbuf code. ?Alternatively, you could consider moving from ipfw to
> > > pf(4) and use pflog(4) / pflogd(8).
> > 
> > or you can use the log option of ipfw and run tcpdump on the "ipfw0"
> > pseudo interface
> > which will give you all the traffic that matches a 'log' rule (there
> > is a sysctl variable that
> > controls whether log goes to syslog or to the ipfw pseudo interface)
> 
> Is the any real documentation on the ipfw0 device and how to use it? I
> can see it as being very handy.

documentation ? what's that :)

thanks for the reminder, just committed some text to ipfw.8 in HEAD to
document the feature.

cheers
luigi

> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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