Well, if I remember correctly, that book was based on OpenBSD 2.5. Also, I
don't see much wrong with using 'eth0' for 'ethernet card 0'. Depending of
the make of you NIC's, you'll get all kinds of different device names. It's
probably better than using fxp0, sis0, elx0.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Nazario" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matthew Reams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:55 PM
Subject: RE: ipf / openBSD
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Matthew Reams wrote:
>
> > You may want to look at http://www.openlysecure.org. Unfortunately,
> > their site is down due to a "major server upgrade" but it is a
> > companion to the book, "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" by Wes
> > Sonnenreich and Tom Yates. There might be some configuration examples
> > and scripts that may interest you.
>
> while i haven't been in depth in the book, the examples they gave on the
> website left me wondering about the quality of the book. (bear in mind my
> reading of it has been standing at the bookshelf of a local borders
> debating whether or not to buy it. so, as much as you can gain in about 30
> minutes of flipping through, reading some sections, debating.)
>
> for example, it has ipf rules supposedly for openbsd citing eth0.
>
> openbsd has NO device named eth0. *linux* does.
>
> ipf has not run correctly on Linux since the late 2.0 kernels and libc5.
>
> several possibilities: the book is way dated. i'm reading things wrong.
> the authors are dead wrong.
>
> if its the latter, i can't reccomend the book. this is a simple oversight
> suggesting too many other things in the book are suspect.
>
> any clarification is welcome, otherwise i'll just have to go out and buy
> the damned book and review it quickly.
>
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