Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:52:26 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new FreeBSD mailing list Message-ID: <20020226145226.X52727@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3C7BF7A4.E571BEFA@centtech.com>; from anderson@centtech.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:01:24PM -0600 References: <3C7AFCED.ADDE60EE@centtech.com> <20020226093250.A1369@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <3C7BEF25.C1EEB8AD@centtech.com> <20020226204420.GA2629@raggedclown.net> <3C7BF7A4.E571BEFA@centtech.com>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:01:24PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure how much traffic such a list would generate.
> >
> > In terms of new lists, I suggested long ago, that the number of
> > questions on filtering/firewalls/nat and all points east generated on -questions
> > could easily justify it's own mailing list. Since this is clearly
> > one of the most confusing, most ill-understood, and frankly
> > insufficiently documented areas of FreeBSD .. and yet one of it's most
> > important. I have twice suggested to Crist Clark he write a book on it..
> > I think he told me he was once approached to do so. But sadly no such
> > book exists. There are lots of bits of paper flying around the net with
> > recipes, suggestions, partial explanations etc. But there is no-where
> > a coherent in-depth discussion of it all.
> >
>
> I must be missing your point, since there IS a -security list, which contains
> those items.
And there are -ipfw and -net for the things Cliff brought up.
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