Re: Useful addition to ipfw

In some mail from Borja Marcos, sie said:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've found myself in a situation where a simple data inspection  
> capability added to ipfw would be very useful.
> 
> I'm not thinking about anything especially sophisticated, but what  
> about adding an option to check byte values (or flags, similar to  
> tcpdump)?
> 
> An example rule could be: add deny udp from any to me 12345 udp[4]&234
> 
> being the rule true if byte 4 in the UDP packet AND the number 234 is  
> not zero.

I believe you could do that today, with IPFilter, if you expressed
the entire packet-matching part of the rule with BPF.

Darren
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