Want to help with handbook

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:14:47 +0300
Cristian KLEIN <cristi at net.utcluj.ro> wrote:

> Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > 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" ?
> > 
> 
> It means editing the REQUIRES, BEFORE in /etc/rc.d/ipfw. As far as I
> know, it is not standard FreeBSD practice to do such things.

Oh, we can do that if there is a dependency.  I'll need to look
into the matter further though.  Is there an issue where one will
fail to load if the previous does not?

Thanks,

-- 
Tom Rhodes