HP-UX IPFilter V18.0 Administrator Guide for HP-UX 11i v3

10 HP-UX IPFilter utilities
10.1 The ipf utility
The ipf utility performs a broad range of actions on the active and inactive IPFilter rulesets. You
can use ipf to add rules, delete rules, switch active and inactive rulesets, and flush the existing
ruleset from the system. You can perform other actions with ipf. See the ipf manpages for more
information.
10.1.1 Syntax
ipf -options [-f rules_file_name]
10.1.2 Options
The following are a few of the common options used with the ipf utility:
-6 Apply the action to the IPv6 filter ruleset or rulesets, or IPv6 processing.
To use this option, insert it immediately after the ipf command and
before any other options.
If you do not specify the -6 option, IPFilter applies the option to the
IPv4 ruleset or rulesets, or IPv4 processing.
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