From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 19:57:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB82116A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:57:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD8243D6A for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:57:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D17D69A87; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:57:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:57:50 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Brad Davis" 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> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple tweaks to the firewall chapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:57:52 -0000 "Brad Davis" 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