Want to help with handbook

Cristian KLEIN cristi at net.utcluj.ro
Tue Oct 24 07:54:57 UTC 2006


Doug Barton wrote:
> Cristian KLEIN wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am sorry if I hit the wrong list, but there was to responsible person
>> listed in this page:
>> http://www1.ro.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html#handbooksection
>>
>> I would like to contribute to the firewall chapter of the FreeBSD
>> Handbook. Specifically, I would like to write about dummynet,
>> mixed-firewall environments (such as IPF + IPFW) and compiling firewalls
>> as modules. Also, I haven't found any evidence of DEVICE_POLLING and
>> LARGE_NAT. All this information is very common for "old" FreeBSD users,
>> but I feel that new users should find out about this information
>> directly from the handbook.
>>
>> I am not a native english speaker, but I think that once I have written
>> something, it should be easier to correct it, rather that start from
>> scratch.
>>
>> Please tell me whom I should contact. Please CC me, as I am not
>> subscribed to this list.
> 
> No need to ask permission, just start writing. :) Once you think it's in
> shape to review, post a URL with the files to this list. Once it's in
> shape to submit, you can send it with send-pr, or perhaps someone will
> offer to commit it directly.

Thanks. I was also interested whether these topics are of value to the
handbook. Some of the above-mentioned things are close to "hacking". For
example, I like to swap ipfw and ipnat in /etc/rc.d/*. Should this be
mentioned in the handbook too?




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