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| author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-07-08 03:20:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-07-08 03:20:46 +0000 |
| commit | 46b37a7e73901ca8bdb1d213407b26cc2d395e3d (patch) | |
| tree | 58c274c498851cbcbc9fc9b7f6a71816668490bb /sbin | |
| parent | ed82279147a85f29e4786611b68f9869c17e07ad (diff) | |
clarify what we mean by firewall
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ipf/ipf.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ipf/ipf.8 b/sbin/ipf/ipf.8 index 74fec857efd..8b03d2c598f 100644 --- a/sbin/ipf/ipf.8 +++ b/sbin/ipf/ipf.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ipf.8,v 1.13 1999/07/08 03:19:14 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ipf.8,v 1.14 1999/07/08 03:20:45 aaron Exp $ .Dd July 7, 1999 .Dt IPF 8 .Os @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ Edit .Pa /etc/sysctl.conf and set .Cm net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 -if this machine is to act as a firewall. This step is not necessary for hosts -which are only filtering packets for themselves, but won't hurt either way. +if this machine is to act as a firewall that also routes traffic or does +Network Address Translation (NAT). .El .Pp Once these steps are complete a rule file may be created. A very |