docs/75694: Wrong date in handbook, section 24.4
Christian Brueffer
chris at unixpages.org
Fri Dec 31 15:20:09 UTC 2004
The following reply was made to PR docs/75694; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org>
To: Marian Cerny <jojo at matfyz.cz>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/75694: Wrong date in handbook, section 24.4
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:14:40 +0100
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:40:40PM +0000, Marian Cerny wrote:
> >Description:
> Section 24.4 The Packet Filter (PF) Firewall in handbook contains wrong d=
ate in the first sentence: "As of *July 2003* the OpenBSD firewall software=
application known as PF was ported to FreeBSD 5.3.". I think the year shou=
ld not be 2003 but 2004.
>=20
> I'm not a native english speaker, so I might be wrong.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Look at the first sentence in the section 24.4 of the handbook.
> >Fix:
> Change year 2003 to 2004.
> >Release-Note:
You are right insofar, that PF was imported into the FreeBSD source tree
in 2004. The porting, however, started much earlier: in the summer
of 2003. PF was available though the ports collection from late 2003
on.
Does this address your concerns?
- Christian
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