From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 30 1:20:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F6C37B416; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 01:20:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA24018; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 01:00:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 01:00:30 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: A180009977889@aol.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Netgraph In-Reply-To: <001201c1797c$a0b7f300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > > If there is anything wrong with netgraph is that there's a lack of examples of > setting up common configurations in the handbook, man pages, and other > documents. /usr/share/examples/netgraph gives examples of some common configurations. > Also, speaking as a writer, section 4 of the manual page on netgraph is > extremely > hard to digest, within the first paragraph alone they redefine the meaning of > the words "graph", "node", "hook", and "edge" I understand it's because of > the modularness of the software but this is a man page that needs to be a lot > less > abbreviated. Suggestions welcome.. :-) > > But none of this matters to the general technical public because what most of > those people do is find a FAQ that contains a recipe for what they want to > be doing and follow that. > > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message