Re: man 5 pf.conf

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Relax.  PF is still a work in progress.  Wait for it.  It will get
there.  It looks like it will get there long before 3.0 ships. 


Consider:
* Theo announced the removal of ipf about five weeks ago
* pf was announced as the new "solution" June 24 -- two weeks ago!
* -current is in NO WAY intended for anyone but VERY advanced users

The fact that there are ANY man pages at all at this point is truly
remarkable, and demonstrates the OpenBSD Team's commitment to
top-quality documentation. 

If you are new to OpenBSD, I would HIGHLY suggest sticking to the
stable product, 2.9.  It is complete, documented, and what you learn
about IPF/IPNAT from 2.9 will mostly transfer to the new PF.  Playing
with something that is moving as fast as -current is going to be VERY
frustrating to a new user.

Nick.


mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser} wrote:
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> Hello all,
> 
> may it be that there is a manpage for nat.conf(5) but
> no one for pf.conf(5) ???
> As we now have pf, I'd like to start playing a bit with
> firewalling, but don't know _how_ to start.
> I only have had experience with Linux 2.0's ipfwadm.
> Because there's neither manpage nor some kind of HOWTO
> for converted people I don't know what to do...
> 
> Regards,
> - -mirabilos

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