Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:01:50 +0200 From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) To: ben wilber <ben@desync.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook PF Message-ID: <87vea7d9ox.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <AB3CA3F7-8B85-40EE-85D4-0053EF77F018@desync.com> (ben wilber's message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:38:50 -0500") References: <AB3CA3F7-8B85-40EE-85D4-0053EF77F018@desync.com>
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ben wilber <ben@desync.com> writes: > What do people think of having a little more of our own PF > documentation in the Handbook? It's quickly becoming a popular > firewall package and the Handbook doesn't really do it justice. I've offered up a patch[1] to the firewalls chapter with a light introduction and a reference to the BSD licensed tutorial[2] I maintain separately. > Maybe some real-world scenarios and commonly used solutions, like NAT > for an office network or authpf for a secured server. yes, there's something like that in there. I'm kind of focused on finishing [3] at the moment, but both [1] and [2] are BSD licensed already and can be used as starting points if anybody else has the resources to get more PF info, possibly FreeBSD-specific, into the FreeBSD Handbook. [1] http://www.bsdly.net/~peter/freebsd/fw.diff [2] http://www.bsdly.net/~peter/pf.html or for that matter directly at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ - the docbook sgml source is there too [3] http://nostarch.com/pf.htm -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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