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.\" To view license terms, attribution, and copyright for IP Filter, the
-.\" default path is /usr/lib/ipf/IPFILTER.LICENCE. If the Illumos operating
+.\" default path is /usr/lib/ipf/IPFILTER.LICENCE. If the illumos operating
.\" environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the
.\" given path to access the file at the installed location.
.\" Portions Copyright (c) 2015, Joyent, Inc.
-.TH IPPOOL 4 "April 9, 2016"
+.TH IPPOOL 4 "May 16, 2020"
.SH NAME
ippool, ippool.conf \- IP Pool file format
.SH DESCRIPTION
The format for files accepted by ippool is described by the following grammar:
.LP
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contains a reference to multiple IP address/netmask pairs. A pool may consist
of a mixture of netmask sizes, from 0 to 32.
.PP
At this point in time, only IPv4 addressing is supported.
.SH OVERVIEW
-.PP
The IP pool configuration file provides for defining two different mechanisms
for improving speed in matching IP addresses with rules.
The first,
.B table
, defines a lookup
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.B fr_dstgrpmap
, to use the source or destination address,
respectively, for determining which filter group to jump to next for
continuation of filter packet processing.
.SH POOL TYPES
-.PP
Two storage formats are provided: hash tables and tree structure. The hash
table is intended for use with objects all containing the same netmask or a
few different sized netmasks of non-overlapping address space and the tree
is designed for being able to support exceptions to a covering mask, in
addition to normal searching as you would do with a table. It is not possible
to use the tree data storage type with
.B group-map
configuration entries.
.SH POOL ROLES
-.PP
-When a pool is defined in the configruation file, it must have an associated
+When a pool is defined in the configuration file, it must have an associated
role. At present the only supported role is
.B ipf.
Future development will see further expansion of their use by other sections
of IPFilter code.
.SH EXAMPLES