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From: "Brad Davis" <so14k@so14k.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple tweaks to the firewall chapter
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>
> I noticed a simple improvement that could be made to the firewall
> chapter of the handbook.  (It needs to briefly note the alternative
> to recompiling a kernel ... kldload)
>
> I seem to remember that someone was working on a major overhaul of
> this chapter ... so _before_ I generate and submit a patch, is there
> any major in-progress work on this chapter that would make it silly
> for me to submit a 5-line patch for a chapter that's going to be
> completely rewritten anyway?

Hi Bill,

Working on the rewrite now, hopefully it will be done next week. I think
it would be ok to go ahead and add your patch. That will help the people
that see the handbook between now and when the rewrite is ready to be
committed.


Regards,
Brad Davis