>I understand that it is resolving, so what is the purpose of the -n
>switch, I'm obviously misinterpreting it's purpose?

This is only valid when you LIST your firewall rulesets.  Ie to
list your existing MASQed connections in numeric form only:

        /sbin/ipfwadm -M -l -n


>The rule was meant to allow traffic from the internal network address to
>come to the eth0, since the follow-up rule refuses any traffic from the
>eth0 that is not within the LAN range.  Is that still a silly rule?

Yes.. its very silly.

--David
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