cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls chapter.sgml

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 11 05:15:50 PDT 2006


On 2006-10-11 05:54, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > | Replace some confusing text about "IPFW being loaded/not being loaded/blah"
> > | with some more relevent and clear text about using rc.conf to load the
> > | firewall.
> > | 
> > | PR              99336
> > | Discussed with: keramida (follow up to PR, etc.)
> > | 
> > | diff a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml
> > | --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml
> > | +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml
> > | @@ -2228,9 +2228,7 @@ options    IPV6FIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEP
> > |      <sect2 id="firewalls-ipfw-rc">
> > |        <title><filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> Options</title>
> > | 
> > | -      <para>If you do not have IPFW compiled into your kernel you will
> > | -       need to load it with the following statement in your
> > | -       <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
> > | +      <para>Enable the firewall:</para>
> > | 
> > |        <programlisting>firewall_enable="YES"</programlisting>
> > | 
> > | %
> > 
> > Since `/etc/rc.d/ipfw' is smart enough to load ipfw.ko or dummynet.ko
> > automagically, as needed, is it ok to write this as:
> > 
> >         <para>Enable the firewall in your
> >           <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> file:</para>
> 
> I was trying to follow the rest of the documentation here, but
> it would not hurt to have this particular sentence re-added.

Thanks for the fast reply Tom :)

After carefully reading the rendered SGML version, I think your version
is much nicer, so I apologize for the noise.



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