From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 26 8:40:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from yossman.net (yossman.net [207.139.53.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD1337B402 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:40:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (yossman@localhost) by yossman.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA74226; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:01:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from yossman@yossman.net) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:01:02 -0500 (EST) From: yossman To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: yossman Subject: suggestion re: dial-up firewall tutorial Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org in http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/dialup-firewall/kernel.html, it is explained what options to add to your kernel before recompiling to enable things like firewall support, and IP stack restrictions like TCP_RESTRICT_RST. in the next page, http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/dialup-firewall/rcconf.html, you mention that you have to modify /etc/rc.conf to enable those options, but it is not mentioned that if you actually used the additional options like TCP_RESTRICT_RST in your kernel you still have to also turn them on in /etc/rc.conf. it would probably be nice to mention that on that second page -- one of my friends pointed out i needed to do a little additional work in /etc/rc.conf to enable the new SYN options in my kernel, instead of me finding out from this tutorial. just a suggestion, thanks for your time. ;) yossman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message