8 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-docRe: docs/167056: ERROR Handbook 9.0, ...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Joe Barbish | Apr 18, 2012 5:36 am | |
| rem...@FreeBSD.org | Apr 18, 2012 10:45 am | |
| Remko Lodder | Apr 18, 2012 10:49 am | |
| cre...@FreeBSD.org | Apr 18, 2012 11:44 am | |
| Peter N. M. Hansteen | Apr 18, 2012 11:56 am | |
| John Ferrell | Apr 20, 2012 8:09 pm | |
| Mark Linimon | Apr 20, 2012 10:49 pm | |
| Mark Linimon | Apr 20, 2012 10:49 pm |
| Subject: | Re: docs/167056: ERROR Handbook 9.0, firewall section, PF from OpenBSD 4.5 | |
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| From: | Mark Linimon (lini...@lonesome.com) | |
| Date: | Apr 20, 2012 10:49:46 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-doc | |
The following reply was made to PR docs/167056; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> To: bug-...@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/167056: ERROR Handbook 9.0, firewall section, PF from OpenBSD 4.5 Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:46:15 -0500
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:09:40 -0400 From: John Ferrell <jdfe...@gmail.com> To: free...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/167056: ERROR Handbook 9.0, firewall section, PF from OpenBSD 4.5
I am the John Ferrell that Joe is refering to. As Remko noted, the patch I submitted did not remove any rules--there were no example rules in the document at the time. The patch was commited in May 2008.
I suspect that when the rules were removed from the handbook it was because the sample rules included with FreeBSD (/usr/share/examples/pf) and the man pages cover many different scenarios.
All that was needed was an additional statement in the FreeBSD = handbook security/PF section saying =84FreeBSD 9.0 is running a outdated = version of PF [4.5], at PF version [4.7] the syntax of the NAT and = ftp-proxy rule changed. The reader should keep in mind the below links = reference the OpenBSD 5.0 version of PF, but the sample PF rules shown = below do match the version of PF [4.5] included with FreeBSD 9.0. Then = add a comment to the NAT rule in the sample rules saying this is the = syntax for NAT usage in versions earlier than version 4.7 and then have = the new NAT rule with comment for version 4.7 and newer. Them when = FreeBSD finally updates to the current version of OpenBSD PF ie:5.0 or = 5.1 the links in the FreeBSD handbook would automatically become = meaningful.=20
I agree, it should be made more clear that OpenBSD's PF syntax differs from that of FreeBSD's. If no one is working on this I'll be glad to submit a patch.
John
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