From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Dec 21 8:12:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from riffraff.plig.net (riffraff.plig.net [195.40.6.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3657837B428 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:11:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by riffraff.plig.net (Postfix, from userid 3010) id 9FDE147C37; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:11:56 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:11:56 +0000 From: Marc Silver To: Martin Heinen Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [martin@sumuk.de: Question 6.3 of 'Dialup firewalling with FreeBSD'] Message-ID: <20011221161156.H81312@draenor.org> References: <20011221170234.A20727@sumuk.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011221170234.A20727@sumuk.de>; from martin@sumuk.de on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:02:35PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi there, On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Martin Heinen wrote: > Hi Marc, > > forgot to CC you in my original posting to -doc :( > Any comments on my proposal? > > Martin > > ----- Forwarded message from Martin Heinen ----- > > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:28:30 +0100 > From: Martin Heinen > To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Question 6.3 of 'Dialup firewalling with FreeBSD' > Reply-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > > The answer to question 6.3 in 'Dialup firewalling with FreeBSD' > states that it is impossible to filter RFC-1918 addresses on > the outside interface. Ok, it states 'The simple answer is no.', > but the article should provide a long answer. I don't agree with you. If this article weren't for novice users then I would agree that the answer needs to expanded. However, the purpose of the document (and the very reason I wrote it) was to create a simple guide. I do not feel it is necessary to provide a long answer, since it's more than likely that more experienced users will not be using this article. :) However, > Possible solutions: > 3) We could refer the reader to /etc/rc.firewall but this seems to > circumvent the purpose of the article. I could most certainly add a reference to /etc/rc.firewall from this document for users who are interested, though I do not feel it's necessary. How does everyone else feel? - Marc p.s. Please CC me on any responses, as I'm not subscribed to this list.. -- I've learned that being kind is more important than being right. -- Andy Rooney To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message