"The Book of PF" exists, physical copies documented
Dear friends, I have just taken delivery of my box of /The Book of PF/[1] author's copies, and I'm finding I'm a bit at a loss for words when it comes to describing the feeling. The thing exists. And it feels great to finally see the thing for real. (OK, I cheated a bit and had five copies printed locally for OpenCON[2], but these are the real ones, slightly different binding) We didn't manage to release the book the same date as OpenBSD 4.2 (yes, that was the original plan), but the thing has been written, printed and should be on its way to all those who preordred as well as to better bookshops everywhere. I'm not directly involved in distribution and can not make any guarantees about when you'll get yours (a slightly more experienced author has written an explanation of that[3] - only this one was printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), but even if it's late for the holidays I hope you'll enjoy your copy and find the book useful. Now of course the usual factors interfered even with the author copies. There is a thing about courier companies and 18th century buildings. Even faced with a relatively small one such as the one I live in, DHL managed to make two attempts at delivery at the disused entrance clearly marked 'deliveries at the other door please', so the delivery finally happened at my office - also located in a 18th century building, but at least one where the DHL people have been before. But it finally arrived and life's good :) One interesting factoid (fsvo) is that this happened within hours of the twenty-five thousandth unique visitor (since EuroBSDCon 2006 that is) hitting the book's predecessor, the online PF tutorial[4]. So happy hacking holidays everyone, [1] http://nostarch.com/pf.htm, also see http://www.bsdly.net/~peter/freshbooks.jpg or (slightly faster) http://home.nuug.no/~peter/freshbooks.jpg [2] http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071207191612 - that's me completely obscured at the back to the right in the third picture (ok, I'm in a few others ;)) [3] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105723966516199&w=2 [4] http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
Re: pf pocket reference book?
On Apr 9, 2005 4:08 AM, Steven Schubiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > My question is, whether it would be of any interest to anyone, > if basic/extended pf "syntax" would get published in an O'Reilly book, > assigned to the category "pocket references", along with some specific > pf.conf examples and documentation; and at last, some sample usages of > pfctl et al. > > Could we divert the "profit" over to the development of pf? > I don't have a great financial urge to do it, since I earn already too > much... err, enough money. :-) > > Steven > Pocket reference would be great, especially with diagrams, seeing how packets flow from one interface to another; packet forwarding, packet forwarding with NAT, packet forwarding with RDR, packet forwarding with BINAT. It could probably fill 8 pages, if I go by the size of my Regular Expression Pocket Reference book. thanks -- spamassassinexception
Re: pf pocket reference book?
On 9 Apr, Allie D wrote: : I think the idea is sound but instead of pf.conf examples maybe pfctl : examples for basic and advanced scenarios. They do correlate, but it seems, in my point of view, to propagate confusion, if we'd intermix pf.conf with pfctl. Steven
Re: pf pocket reference book?
I think the idea is sound but instead of pf.conf examples maybe pfctl examples for basic and advanced scenarios. Steven Schubiger([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 05:08:11AM +0200: > Hi > > My question is, whether it would be of any interest to anyone, > if basic/extended pf "syntax" would get published in an O'Reilly book, > assigned to the category "pocket references", along with some specific > pf.conf examples and documentation; and at last, some sample usages of > pfctl et al. > > Could we divert the "profit" over to the development of pf? > I don't have a great financial urge to do it, since I earn already too > much... err, enough money. :-) > > Steven -- Allie D. Allnix, LLC. http://www.allnix.net
pf pocket reference book?
Hi My question is, whether it would be of any interest to anyone, if basic/extended pf "syntax" would get published in an O'Reilly book, assigned to the category "pocket references", along with some specific pf.conf examples and documentation; and at last, some sample usages of pfctl et al. Could we divert the "profit" over to the development of pf? I don't have a great financial urge to do it, since I earn already too much... err, enough money. :-) Steven
[book announcement] Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF
devguide.net is taking orders for "Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF" by Jacek Artymiak http://www.devguide.net/books/buildingfirewallswithopenbsdandpf/ Best regards, Jacek Artymiak PS. This message was sent with Daniel's permission. Thank you, Daniel!
Re: Request for review: PF book section
Yes, it's rude to follow up on myself, but I'm being drowned by email: See http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/openbsd.html if you want to know about the book. Please don't mail me with "when will it be out" and suchforth, I'll just point you there. ==ml On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:49:55PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > Hello, > > As some on this list know, I'm writing a book on OpenBSD. > > Most of the book I can test myself -- I can sit and build ports and do > installs all day long, after all. The sections on PF are a little > more problematical, however, as I don't exactly have a wide variety of > real networks to muck around with. > > As such, I'm requesting additional reviewers for the PF chapters of > the book. At the moment it's written as one chapter, but I plan to > break it up into 2-3 chapters as it's 22,000 words long. It's not an > exhaustive treatment of PF, but does cover what I see as the most > popular parts. > > I cannot post a public URL, as that would be "prior publication" and > invalidate my contract with my publisher. If you would be willing to > do this review, however, please contact me and I will send you the > chapter. > > I would need any completed feedback by 1-15-03. > > Regards, > Michael > > -- > Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > >Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/
Request for review: PF book section
Hello, As some on this list know, I'm writing a book on OpenBSD. Most of the book I can test myself -- I can sit and build ports and do installs all day long, after all. The sections on PF are a little more problematical, however, as I don't exactly have a wide variety of real networks to muck around with. As such, I'm requesting additional reviewers for the PF chapters of the book. At the moment it's written as one chapter, but I plan to break it up into 2-3 chapters as it's 22,000 words long. It's not an exhaustive treatment of PF, but does cover what I see as the most popular parts. I cannot post a public URL, as that would be "prior publication" and invalidate my contract with my publisher. If you would be willing to do this review, however, please contact me and I will send you the chapter. I would need any completed feedback by 1-15-03. Regards, Michael -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/
Re: Book.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:14:25AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 07:43:56AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > > > So, Dan, are you planning to rework the whole pf tool suite for 3.3, > > > as you did between 3.1 and 3.2? That'll tell me how many pages I can > > > spend on it... if the user-visible interface is still flopping around, > > > I have to trim the page count I'm planning for it. > > There's a big thing coming I'm currently coding on, though that's an > > extension. I think we will add quite a few extensions, but the existing > > stuff should be fairly stable - but you never know for sure. perhaps we have > > THE idea how everything is better... > > [replying to both Henning and Dan] > > Thanks for the info. > > Extensions are cool, and if you guys have an inspiration on how to do > everything perfectly and cause packet-filtering world peace, certainly > do it. :-) yes, we invent world peace, is that news? ;-) > (/me looks at outline, sees chapter on altq, and kills it. Ah, well, > maybe that'll keep *this* book under 600 pages...) or just be patient for a few weeks and re-add or merge that chapter ;-) -- Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) msg00254/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Book.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 07:43:56AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > > So, Dan, are you planning to rework the whole pf tool suite for 3.3, > > as you did between 3.1 and 3.2? That'll tell me how many pages I can > > spend on it... if the user-visible interface is still flopping around, > > I have to trim the page count I'm planning for it. > > There's a big thing coming I'm currently coding on, though that's an > extension. I think we will add quite a few extensions, but the existing > stuff should be fairly stable - but you never know for sure. perhaps we have > THE idea how everything is better... [replying to both Henning and Dan] Thanks for the info. Extensions are cool, and if you guys have an inspiration on how to do everything perfectly and cause packet-filtering world peace, certainly do it. :-) (/me looks at outline, sees chapter on altq, and kills it. Ah, well, maybe that'll keep *this* book under 600 pages...) -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/
Re: Book.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > There's a big thing coming I'm currently coding on, though that's an > extension. I think we will add quite a few extensions, but the existing > stuff should be fairly stable - but you never know for sure. perhaps we have > THE idea how everything is better... Let's put it this way: I wouldn't plan too many pages on altq configuration :) Seriously, there are no plans to change significant parts in pf configuration around. And any future plans will be compared to the amount of work caused to update documentation. Daniel
Re: Book.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 07:43:56AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > So, Dan, are you planning to rework the whole pf tool suite for 3.3, > as you did between 3.1 and 3.2? That'll tell me how many pages I can > spend on it... if the user-visible interface is still flopping around, > I have to trim the page count I'm planning for it. There's a big thing coming I'm currently coding on, though that's an extension. I think we will add quite a few extensions, but the existing stuff should be fairly stable - but you never know for sure. perhaps we have THE idea how everything is better...
Re: Book.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:38:56AM +0200, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:34:19PM -0500, Juan Antonio Torres Zúñiga wrote: > > > This mail it's for Daniel, Do you think write a book about PF? > > A whole book is a lot of work :) There's probably not a large enough > market for a traditionally published book (there aren't many paper books > about OpenBSD in general, even) and for a non-commercial publication, > time is the limit, as I can't afford that many weeks worth of unpaid > work. There's not enough in PF to make a whole book. However, I'm hoping to include a couple chapters on it in my OpenBSD book. Worst case, I plan to put in recipies on how to pass traffic of various protocols across various "styles" of pf firewall. So, Dan, are you planning to rework the whole pf tool suite for 3.3, as you did between 3.1 and 3.2? That'll tell me how many pages I can spend on it... if the user-visible interface is still flopping around, I have to trim the page count I'm planning for it. ==ml -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/
Re: Book.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:03:16AM -0700, Sacha Ligthert wrote: > PS: Daniel, will you be at BSDconEurope? Yes, I just registered. Today's the last day of early registration, so anyone still undecided, make up your minds. And I'm looking forward to meeting you there :) http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/ Daniel
Re: Book.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: > A whole book is a lot of work :) There's probably not a large enough > market for a traditionally published book (there aren't many paper books > about OpenBSD in general, even) and for a non-commercial publication, > time is the limit, as I can't afford that many weeks worth of unpaid > work. Writing the book would probarbly stall development. If it wouldn't stall development newfeatures won't end up in the book. > Let's put it this way: I can always work on improving the man > pages and FAQ in smaller chunks, I think thats sufficient, but I think the initial post was asking for a step-to-step guide in Building PF firewalling rules. Sacha PS: Daniel, will you be at BSDconEurope? -- " Bebe mi semen, bebelo hasta el fin " Hocico - Sucios Pensamientos
Re: Book.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:34:19PM -0500, Juan Antonio Torres Zúñiga wrote: > This mail it's for Daniel, Do you think write a book about PF? A whole book is a lot of work :) There's probably not a large enough market for a traditionally published book (there aren't many paper books about OpenBSD in general, even) and for a non-commercial publication, time is the limit, as I can't afford that many weeks worth of unpaid work. Also, there's the question of what topics to include. For people familiar with TCP/IP[1] and BSD internals[2], pf documentation could be more technical and concise, while making the basics of TCP/IP and BSD accessable to readers without these preconditions would be more of a challenge. Let's put it this way: I can always work on improving the man pages and FAQ in smaller chunks, and if O'Reilly or AW comes knocking on the door, I'll seriously think about it, but I don't hold my breath :) Daniel [1] TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, The Protocols W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201633469 [2] The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System McKusick, Bostic, Karels & Quarterman, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201549794
Book.
Hello. I´m a new OpenBSD user and I very impresed with it. This mail it´s for Daniel, Do you think write a book about PF? Juan Antonio Torres Zúñiga
