Want to help with handbook

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:54:50 +0300
Cristian KLEIN <cristi at net.utcluj.ro> wrote:

> 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?

Really depends on what you mean by "swap" ?

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Tom Rhodes