Simple tweaks to the firewall chapter

[Bill Moran]

"Brad Davis" <so14k at so14k.com> wrote:
> >
> > I noticed a simple improvement that could be made to the firewall
> > chapter of the handbook.  (It needs to briefly note the alternative
> > to recompiling a kernel ... kldload)
> >
> > I seem to remember that someone was working on a major overhaul of
> > this chapter ... so _before_ I generate and submit a patch, is there
> > any major in-progress work on this chapter that would make it silly
> > for me to submit a 5-line patch for a chapter that's going to be
> > completely rewritten anyway?
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> Working on the rewrite now, hopefully it will be done next week. I think
> it would be ok to go ahead and add your patch. That will help the people
> that see the handbook between now and when the rewrite is ready to be
> committed.

Well ... I haven't actually made the patch yet ;)

I assume that you've added a reference to the fact that you can kldload
the ipfw module?

Thanks for the response.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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