Want to help with handbook

[Cristian KLEIN]

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.