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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:25:55 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Brad Davis" <so14k@so14k.com>
To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple tweaks to the firewall chapter
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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?

Yes :)


Regards,
Brad Davis