Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 01:44:08 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org> Cc: <A180009977889@aol.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Netgraph Message-ID: <001601c17983$8e7fc760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111300059061.22768-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Julian Elischer [mailto:julian@elischer.org] >Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:01 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: A180009977889@aol.com; hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Netgraph > > > > >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. > Oh dang, I should have checked there. But really, this info needs to be in the ngctl man page. >> 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.. :-) > The biggest problem with those man pages is that they tell you exactly what the stuff does but not exactly why you would want to do it. I actually sent in a proposal to BSDcon to give a presentation on building network routers with FreeBSD, with a big D&P show of different systems tied together. Discussion of Netgraph would have been part of this of course and while I was writing that part I could have modified the man pages. But it wasn't picked up and I set it aside. Maybe sometime in the future I'll pick it up again. 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
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