I don't think you're seeing what I mean. "host" is just a filler word, it has absolutely no bearing on the real data. "any" carries with it an implicit host, you could just as easily say "host any" or "host all". The root of it's meaning is "which host do I allow?" (based on the "permit" earlier).

Think of it in another way, let's say you had a theme park and for different rides there were different height requirments. We could express this as:

lane permit waterslide "The Slayer" eq 5 person 280cm (pplcnt=30)
lane permit waterslide "The Trickle" eq 2 anyone (pplcnt=532)
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So we permit the use of "The Slayer" waterslide if they're a person over 280cm (and a little insane). In the second we permit the use of "The Trickle" to anyone who wants to. What I'm getting at here is that what you're taking as two pieces of information is in fact only one piece. If you go back and think through what the firewall is actually telling you, you realise that it's just different grammar that makes one longer.

So to go back to primary problem:

conduit permit tcp host 192.168.1.1 eq www any (hitcnt=57476) 
        | 0  | |1|      |    2    |    |3| |4|         | 5 | 

conduit permit tcp host 192.168.1.1 eq 139 host 192.168.2.1 (hitcnt=2)
        | 0  | |1|      |    2    |    |3|      |    4    |         |
                                                                    5
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I've revised the diagram to just highlight the important data, all the rest is just packing material.

• $permit is a boolean value (bit), either you permit or deny.
• $protocol can be represented many ways, if you only deal in TCP and UDP -- and are tight on space -- you can represent it as a bit; a nicer datatype might be char(3) or char(4), depending on what other protocols you use, as it maps better for human understanding.
• $server is an IP or possibly IP range. If your database supports internal ip/masks as a datatype then use that; if you plan to be doing a lot of indexing and/or matching/lookups on it, use an integer representation; or if all you really do is display it back, a varchar() would work as well.
• $port has a range of [0..2^16) which is an unsigned small int (or int(2) to many dbs).
• $client is an IP/mask again, as dicussed in server. Here though the mask comes more into play, as you can represents groups of computer (eg. "any") quite easily in that notation.
• $hitcnt would be some form of integer unless you have insane daily traffic :)

If I come across as heavy handed, please don't take it as such. I just think you're setting yourself up for way too much work and less robust reporting than you could achieve with a good foundation (data structure).

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