Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:57:50 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Brad Davis" <so14k@so14k.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple tweaks to the firewall chapter Message-ID: <20040804155750.4ee98d93.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <51853.24.8.51.173.1091646364.squirrel@24.8.51.173> References: <20040804122518.1a9ebe34.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <51853.24.8.51.173.1091646364.squirrel@24.8.51.173>
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"Brad Davis" <so14k@so14k.com> wrote: > > > > 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. Well ... I haven't actually made the patch yet ;) I assume that you've added a reference to the fact that you can kldload the ipfw module? Thanks for the response. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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