From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 20:25:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E495316A417; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:25:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from skapet.datadok.no (cl-426.sto-01.se.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:16d8:ff00:1a9::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9431713C47E; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:25:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from thingy.bsdly.net ([10.168.103.11] helo=thingy.bsdly.net.bsdly.net ident=peter) by skapet.datadok.no with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1JH3Co-0008Ej-IU; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:25:18 +0100 To: Tom Rhodes References: <200801211811.m0LIBRfs082787@freefall.freebsd.org> <87bq7f82mi.fsf@thingy.bsdly.net> <20080121134044.0e673067.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <87myqz6ln3.fsf@thingy.bsdly.net> <20080121142539.20bab899.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:25:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080121142539.20bab899.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> (Tom Rhodes's message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:25:39 -0500") Message-ID: <87zluz53kj.fsf@thingy.bsdly.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/82290: [patch] update to handbook firewall PF section X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:25:20 -0000 Tom Rhodes writes: > What I normally do is cover the latest releases on both the > development and stable branches. In most cases, I'll cover the > entire stable release and make notes where differences will be > noticed by the user - especially things like new options, syntax > changes, etc. This sounds like track 6.n and 7.n for now, assuming 8.n is still the far horizon. The main thing is likely to be the 'keep state' flag day (OpenBSD 4.1) anyway. > How about we break this up into a few smaller parts to make review > a bit easier. Starting mainly with the pftools section, as that > appears to be very useful. The rest of it we can kick around a > few ideas about what to cover, what not to cover, etc. Sound > good? Thanks, Yes. It does sound like breaking it into smaller chunks makes sense. I just hope a large enough chunk of time materializes for me to do it soon. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.