redhat man page for ipfwadm-wrapper

IPFWADM-WRAPPER(8)														IPFWADM-WRAPPER(8)

NAME
       ipfwadm-wrapper - IP firewall administration

SYNOPSIS
       ipfwadm-wrapper -A command parameters [options]
       ipfwadm-wrapper -I command parameters [options]
       ipfwadm-wrapper -O command parameters [options]
       ipfwadm-wrapper -F command parameters [options]
       ipfwadm-wrapper -M [ -l | -s ] [options]

DESCRIPTION
       Ipfwadm-wrapper	emulates  the  behaviour  of  ipfwadm.	You can use this wrapper to use your old ipfwadm firewall rules with ipchains. See
       ipfwadm(8) for more details.

       If the kernel does not support ipchains (eg. a 2.0 kernel), and the file /sbin/ipfwadm.real exists and is executable, then it will be  exe-
       cuted  with  the  arguments  given  to  ipfwadm-wrapper.   This allows simple dual-booting of 2.2 and 2.0 kernels with the same firewalling
       scripts: simply move ipfwadm to ipfwadm.real, and ipfwadm-wrapper to ipfwadm.

SEE ALSO
       ipfwadm(8), ipchains(8)

BUGS
       The script isn't clever at parsing command line arguments.  You must use separate arguments, rather than run them together.   For  example,
       `ipfwadm -Mle' becomes `ipfwadm-wrapper -M -l -e'.

       Fragment accounting rules are not translated correctly; they will account packets with source port 65535.

       Due to new kernel restrictions, you must be root even to list rules for 2.2 kernels.

       If /usr is mounted from NFS, you will not be able to use ipfwadm-wrapper before /usr is mounted.

AUTHOR
       Paul ``Rusty'' Russell <ipchains@rustcorp.com>

								 February 8, 1998						IPFWADM-WRAPPER(8)