diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 912e2b3..1938543 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -372,6 +372,18 @@ The last step is to remove the current running jail, change the version in `etc/
 
 If there's anything wrong you can always go back to the previous version using the above steps.
 
+## Advanced Features
+Jaildk also offers some advanced features like automatically setting up and deleting ipfw rules or freezing and thawing a jail (to make it easily portable).
+### Using the IPFW
+To use the IPFW on your host you first have to enable ipfw in your hosts rc.conf `firewall_enable="YES"`.
+You probably want to set the default firewalling-type there aswell, check out the [FreeBSD handbook](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html) for further information. 
+Once enabled you also need to start ipfw by executing the rc script: `/etc/rc.d/ipfw start`.
+Be aware that inter-jail communication is transfered via the loopback interface (normally lo0) for which there is a high priority allow any to any rule by default: `allow ip from any to any via lo`
+In order to control the inter-jail communication you have to delete this rule first.
+
+If an ipfw.conf exists for a jail (e.g. /jail/etc/myjail/ipfw.conf) the rules inside that config file are added when starting, and deleted when stopping the jail.
+E.g. allowing HTTP/HTTPS traffic for that jail (webserver): `allow tcp from any to $ip setup keep-state`
+As demonstrated in the previous rule `$ip` is reserved and automatically replaced with the jails own ip (as reported by `jls`).
 
 ## Getting help
 
@@ -389,6 +401,7 @@ This software is licensed under the BSD license.
 ## Authors
 
 T.v.Dein <tom AT vondein DOT org>
+
 F.Sass (Culsu)
 
 ## Project homepage
diff --git a/jaildk b/jaildk
index ac98e0e..f30cb85 100755
--- a/jaildk
+++ b/jaildk
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ jaildk_clone() {
         clone $j/data/$src/www   $j/data/$new/www
         clone $j/data/$src/spool $j/data/$new/spool
 
-        ex cp -pRp $j/etc/$src/mount.conf $j/etc/$src/ports.conf $j/etc/$src/mtree.conf $j/etc/$new/
+        ex cp -pRp $j/etc/$src/mount.conf $j/etc/$src/ports.conf $j/etc/$src/mtree.conf $j/etc/$src/ipfw.conf $j/etc/$new/
 
         echo "Creating $j/etc/$src/jail.conf"
         cat $j/etc/$src/jail.conf | egrep -v "^(name|version)=" >  $j/etc/$new/jail.conf
@@ -782,9 +782,11 @@ jaildk_create() {
     jaildk_clone -s $src -d $jail -o $srcversion -n $newversion
     # some perl magic to extract the hostname (if any) from /etc/jail.conf - and write it into the jails rc.conf
     jailhostname=$(cat /etc/jail.conf | tr -d '\t\r\n ' | perl -ne '$_ =~ /.*'"$newjail"'(\{(?:\{.*\}|[^{])*\})|\w+/; print $1;' | grep -oE 'hostname=[^;]+' | cut -d= -f2)
-    [ -n "$jailhostname" ] && sed -iE 's/^hostname.*$/hostname="'"$jailhostname"'"/' $j/etc/$newjail/local-etc-$newversion/rc.conf
-    
-    
+    if [ -n "$jailhostname" ]; then
+        echo "new name: $jailhostname"
+        echo "in path $j/etc/$jail/local-etc-$newversion/rc.conf"
+        sed -iE 's/^hostname.*$/hostname="'"$jailhostname"'"/' $j/etc/$newjail/local-etc-$newversion/rc.conf
+    fi     
 }
 
 remove() {
@@ -903,6 +905,7 @@ jaildk_jail() {
                 ;;
             *)
                 service jail $mode $jail
+                jaildk_ipfw $jail $mode
                 ;;
         esac
     fi
@@ -1162,6 +1165,9 @@ home/$name/root-$version       $name/root                          nullfs  rw' >
     bold "creating template config $j/etc/.template/ports.conf"
     (echo bash; echo ca_root_nss) > $j/etc/.template/ports.conf
 
+    bold "creating template config $j/etc/.template/ipfw.conf"
+    touch $j/etc/.template/ipfw.conf
+
     bold "creating template config $j/etc/.template/mtree.conf"
 #    touch $j/etc/.template/mtree.conf
     echo '/set type=dir uid=0 gid=0 mode=01777
@@ -1460,6 +1466,42 @@ jaildk_thaw() {
     bold "Done. Thawed jail $jail $version from $image."
 }
 
+jaildk_ipfw() {
+    jail=$1
+    mode=$2
+    if [ -f "$j/etc/$jail/ipfw.conf" ]; then
+        echo
+        bold "Managing IPFW Rules..."
+        case $mode in
+            start)
+                jaildk_ipfw_delete $jail "y"
+                jaildk_ipfw_add $jail
+                ;;
+            stop)
+                jaildk_ipfw_delete $jail                
+                ;;
+        esac
+        bold "... done"
+        echo
+    fi
+}
+
+jaildk_ipfw_add() {
+    jail=$1
+    # Getting current jails IP..
+    jailip=$(jls | grep -E "$jail\$" | awk '{print $2}')
+    # Adding rules
+    cat $j/etc/$jail/ipfw.conf | awk -v jailname="$jail" '{print "ipfw add "$0" // " jailname}' | sed -E "s/\\\$ip/$jailip/g" | while read rule; do $rule; done
+        
+}
+
+jaildk_ipfw_delete() {
+    jail=$1
+    noout=$2
+    # Deleting rules
+    ipfw show | grep -E "// $jail\$" | while read rule; do [ -z "$2" ] && bold "Deleting rule $rule"; sh -c "ipfw delete $(echo $rule| awk '{print $1}')"; done
+
+}
 
 ##########################
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