Kernel Config for NAT

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Sat Apr 10 09:07:21 UTC 2010


On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
 > Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
 > >  > >  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html
 > > <rant>
 > > This is absolutely the worst section of an otherwise great
 > > handbook ...  Nothing short of a rewrite from scratch could
 > > fix it ...
 > 
 > As always, I'm sure a patch -- to provide that rewrite --
 > would be welcome.

You're quite right, of course.  It's a huge job, and I'm not sure I can 
do it; just picked up the latest chapter.sgml for another look.  I know 
I should STFU or fix it, but I can't help at least warning people who, 
unless they're at least familiar with ipfw(8), are going to be either 
put off or - in my view - misled or confused.

I'll see if I can't come up with at least some updates and corrections.

Thanks for the kick :)

cheers, Ian


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