Re: FAQ 3.3

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

A little typo in http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/macros.html

Bottom paragraph:
The macro $all_hosts now expands to 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2. 

Should be:
The macro $all_hosts now expands to 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2. 

/marco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] 
> On Behalf Of Nick Holland
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 10:58
> To: Misc @OpenBSD
> Subject: FAQ 3.3
> 
> 
> As I have for the last few releases, I have updated the OpenBSD FAQ 
>     http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html
> to reflect OpenBSD 3.3, however there are a few things I wish 
> to point out for 3.3...
> 
> Tom Cosgrove has been doing a great job of getting me an 
> updated and well-made .PDF of the FAQ on a weekly basis, and 
> wrote me a set of scripts to make a very nice text file 
> version of the FAQ.  As these are now stored on the FTP 
> servers, I don't get to publicly thank him for this, or even 
> make it clear that it is happening, but it has been, and is 
> being mirrored to your nearest FTP mirror.  Thanks, Tom!
> 
> You can find them in the /pub/OpenBSD/doc directory on your 
> favorite FTP mirror.
> 
> As most people probably know, the FAQ follows release, but I 
> have kept the most recent 3.2 versions of the FAQ in PDF and 
> text format in this same directory.
> 
> 
> 
> Every once in a while, you get an E-Mail, and suddenly, 
> everything changes...  I got a note from Joel Knight, 
> offering to help write some stuff for the FAQ on PF.  I 
> showed him my framework, and as usual, I said, "Show me".  A 
> couple days latter, he hands me a great document on 
> queueing...and he just kept on writing...
> 
> So now... [cue the drum roll please] 
> ==============================================================
>    Introducing the New PF FAQ!
> 
       http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html
=============================================================

As with everything in the FAQ, it is intended to suppliment the on-line
man pages, not replace them, but if you have been looking to understand
some of the more advanced topics of PF, check it out. 
Also, as with everything in the FAQ, the PF FAQ is going to stay in a
perpetual state of enhancement and revision for quite some time.  This
is not just a "beginner's" document anymore, check out the sections of
it:

      Configuration 
      Lists and Macros 
      Tables 
      Options 
      Scrub 
      Queueing 
      Network Address Translation 
      Traffic Redirection 
      Packet Filtering 
      Logging 
      Anchors and Named (Sub) Rule Sets 
      Shortcuts for Creating Rule Sets 
      Address Pools and Load Balancing 
      Performance 
      Issues with FTP 
      Example: Firewall for Home or Small Office 

(Can you tell I'm a little excited about this?  In all honesty, this was
my most exciting commit since my very first with the project.)

Tom Cosgrove has been kind enough to start spinning out .PDF files of
the PF FAQ, also in the same /pub/OpenBSD/doc directory mentioned above
(first one is already there!)


Thanks to Sam Smith, Tom Cosgrove, Saad Kadhi, Horacio, and all the
others who have helped me proof-read and error check the FAQ.  I'd also
like to thank the translation team
(http://www.openbsd.org/translation.html) for all their hard work.


Nick.
-- 
http://www.holland-consulting.net