Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:33:46 -0400 From: Christopher Weimann <csw@k12hq.com> To: martes.wigglesworth@us.army.mil Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good Information about ipfw Message-ID: <20040601203346.GA7362@smtp.k12us.com> In-Reply-To: <1085928129.1614.16.camel@Micronet2.local> References: <20040527190044.7477916A4D5@hub.freebsd.org> <1085928129.1614.16.camel@Micronet2.local>
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On 06/01/2004-11:59PM, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: > Is there a good, definitive, source of information for implementing ipfw > firewall rules. I had to research for almost a week just to find out > how to do bandwidth limiting with freebsd. (3days just to find out if > freebsd does this, and then another two just to find out what dummynet > is, and then I found out that it was in the man page.) Where is the > list of all these obscure programs, and features, that are not a > unreadable as most man pages. > Where did you look? I just spent about 2 minutes and found question 12.22 in the FreeBSD FAQ "Where can I get a bandwidth management tool?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/networking.html#BANDWIDTH-MGR-TOOL > I would also like to know what the point of most manpages are. 90 > percent of them just list abitrary commands, as though you are supposed > to know how to use the program in the first place. There are almost > never any useful informatin about implementing the program that the > manpage is supposed to explain, but does not. > Man pages typically references not tutorials. They list ALL the command line options for the programs they document not arbitrary ones. > I have not been able to locate any book on the one firewall, that seems > to be at the heart of any good Freebsd firewall setup. > Try 'man firewall'. I would also suggest browse the FreeBSD FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html and the FreeBSD handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ If these things don't cover what you are looking for they will at least piont you in the right direction. Next would be google. For example... A google search for 'FreeBSD ipfw' comes up with several related hits specifically http://www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Ipfw-HOWTO looks like it may help you ( I have not read it so I don't know how good it is ) A google for 'FreeBSD dummynet' yeilds this page about dummynet. http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/
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