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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:04:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/102334: Handbook and man pages for firewalls are inconsistent
Message-ID:  <20060821010404.F0F8E5C31@slan.es.net>
Resent-Message-ID: <200608210110.k7L1A96e051641@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         102334
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook and man pages for firewalls are inconsistent
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 21 01:10:09 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kevin Oberman
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
ESent--The Energy Sciences Network
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD slan.es.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #21: Sat Aug 12 22:41:34 PDT 2006 root@slan.es.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IBM-T43 i386

>Description:
The handbook and the man page for firewalls are inconsistent. I
suspect both might be correct, but it would probably be less confusing
if they were consistent. 

The man page recommends adding 'firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.conf"' to
/etc/rc.conf while the handbook call for
'firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules"'. The handbook seems more intuitive
to me, but they really should be consistent.
>How-To-Repeat:
	N/A
>Fix:

	Select either method and make man pate and handbook consistent.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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