From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 13:33:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA2516A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.k12us.com (smtp.k12us.com [65.112.222.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D768043D54 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:33:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csw@k12hq.com) Received: (qmail 33534 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Jun 2004 20:33:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:33:46 -0400 From: Christopher Weimann To: martes.wigglesworth@us.army.mil Message-ID: <20040601203346.GA7362@smtp.k12us.com> References: <20040527190044.7477916A4D5@hub.freebsd.org> <1085928129.1614.16.camel@Micronet2.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085928129.1614.16.camel@Micronet2.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good Information about ipfw X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:33:47 -0000 On 06/01/2004-11:59PM, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: > Is there a good, definitive, source of information for implementing ipfw > firewall rules. I had to research for almost a week just to find out > how to do bandwidth limiting with freebsd. (3days just to find out if > freebsd does this, and then another two just to find out what dummynet > is, and then I found out that it was in the man page.) Where is the > list of all these obscure programs, and features, that are not a > unreadable as most man pages. > Where did you look? I just spent about 2 minutes and found question 12.22 in the FreeBSD FAQ "Where can I get a bandwidth management tool?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/networking.html#BANDWIDTH-MGR-TOOL > I would also like to know what the point of most manpages are. 90 > percent of them just list abitrary commands, as though you are supposed > to know how to use the program in the first place. There are almost > never any useful informatin about implementing the program that the > manpage is supposed to explain, but does not. > Man pages typically references not tutorials. They list ALL the command line options for the programs they document not arbitrary ones. > I have not been able to locate any book on the one firewall, that seems > to be at the heart of any good Freebsd firewall setup. > Try 'man firewall'. I would also suggest browse the FreeBSD FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html and the FreeBSD handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ If these things don't cover what you are looking for they will at least piont you in the right direction. Next would be google. For example... A google search for 'FreeBSD ipfw' comes up with several related hits specifically http://www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Ipfw-HOWTO looks like it may help you ( I have not read it so I don't know how good it is ) A google for 'FreeBSD dummynet' yeilds this page about dummynet. http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/