Handbook PF

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 18 22:12:13 UTC 2007


On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, ben wilber wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:39:50PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
>
>> Why would we, when a very great PF documentation is maintained by
>> OpenBSD guys at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ ?
>
> Because the PF FAQ reads more like an instruction manual than a FAQ.  I
> don't think the casual user looking to set up basic firewall
> functionality on their FreeBSD machine needs to be presented with CIDR
> lessons.

Perhaps you could suggest an outline for the basic firewall setup that you 
have in mind, to which we could add a link to the openbsd faq.

Having something that fits our style is good, but we want to avoid not 
using something just because it's NIH.

Doug

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