Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:46:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How To's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010151345510.1245-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <001401c037ad$e24645e0$47010a0a@fire.sysadmininc.com>
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Sounds like you're voluntreeing to head this up... :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Peter Brezny wrote: > I've been disappointed with the aparent absence of HOW TO documents for > freebsd (at least that can be located from the freebsd.org website). > > bsdtoday has a how too link, and i was surprised to find exactly what i was > looking for, through that site, but located at > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html > > This is exactly the document I was looking for. > > Why don't we have a how too link on the freebsd main page? > > I feel that this type of usefull information could really help if it were > also included in the documentation that comes with freebsd. There's a > wealth of information about the specifics of how to write complex ipfw > rules, but I've not been able to find a single document that gives you the > bare bones of what you need to do to enable ipfw. The closes i found on the > distribution documentation is an article about dialup ppp firewalling, and > it appears to be out of date to the point that the instructions don't work > with freebsd 4.1. > > Please consider putting together a HOW TO page and putting a link to it on > the main freebsd site under documentation. We need it. > > Peter Brezny > SysAdmin Services, Inc. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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