From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 24 07:54:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FF516A403; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:54:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cristi@net.utcluj.ro) Received: from bavaria.utcluj.ro (bavaria.utcluj.ro [193.226.5.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13EF243D53; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:54:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cristi@net.utcluj.ro) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bavaria.utcluj.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BE67F3F8; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:54:53 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bavaria.utcluj.ro ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bavaria.utcluj.ro [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 62212-08; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:54:51 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [172.27.2.200] (c7.campus.utcluj.ro [193.226.6.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bavaria.utcluj.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657387F3DE; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:54:51 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <453DC6CA.60304@net.utcluj.ro> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:54:50 +0300 From: Cristian KLEIN Organization: Data Communication Center - Technical University of Cluj-Napoca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <453CD37B.3080909@net.utcluj.ro> <453D533F.9020301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <453D533F.9020301@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by the daemon playing with your mail on bavaria.utcluj.ro Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Want to help with handbook 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: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:54:57 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > Cristian KLEIN wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am sorry if I hit the wrong list, but there was to responsible person >> listed in this page: >> http://www1.ro.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html#handbooksection >> >> I would like to contribute to the firewall chapter of the FreeBSD >> Handbook. Specifically, I would like to write about dummynet, >> mixed-firewall environments (such as IPF + IPFW) and compiling firewalls >> as modules. Also, I haven't found any evidence of DEVICE_POLLING and >> LARGE_NAT. All this information is very common for "old" FreeBSD users, >> but I feel that new users should find out about this information >> directly from the handbook. >> >> I am not a native english speaker, but I think that once I have written >> something, it should be easier to correct it, rather that start from >> scratch. >> >> Please tell me whom I should contact. Please CC me, as I am not >> subscribed to this list. > > No need to ask permission, just start writing. :) Once you think it's in > shape to review, post a URL with the files to this list. Once it's in > shape to submit, you can send it with send-pr, or perhaps someone will > offer to commit it directly. Thanks. I was also interested whether these topics are of value to the handbook. Some of the above-mentioned things are close to "hacking". For example, I like to swap ipfw and ipnat in /etc/rc.d/*. Should this be mentioned in the handbook too?