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

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 11 17:48:27 PDT 2006


On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:14:44 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 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.

No need to apologize.  ;)

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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