Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:27:15 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewall chapter paragraph explanation Message-ID: <20041228182715.GC1017@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <1104162949.57869.9.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> References: <1104162949.57869.9.camel@kaiser.sig11.org>
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On 2004-12-27 16:55, Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org> wrote:
> Hi folks!
> I'm translating the Firewall chapter of the Handbook in Italian [...]
> I find real difficulties in understanding and translating lines
> 1022-1024 of chapter.sgml :
>
> <title>STATEFUL</title>
> <para><literal>keep state</literal> indicates that on a pass rule, any
> packets that match the rules selection parameters is to activate the
> stateful filtering facility.</para>
>
> I think it means:
> "keep state" means that the stateful filtering facility must be
> activated for any packet that matches the rule selection parameters of a
> pass rule."
What this paragraph means is, IMHO:
"keep state" means that the stateful filtering facility _will_ be
activated...
> Am I wrong?
Not really. The original paragraph is a bit strange.
> Is the chapter paragraph syntactically and grammatically correct?
Not all of it. There are people working on this, AFAIK.
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