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From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: excessively vague information in pppoe page of Handbook  
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>Number:         27320
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       excessively vague information in pppoe page of Handbook
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    brian
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 14 15:30:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Sep 2 19:29:50 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Sep 02 19:31:55 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Doug Young
>Release:        4.3 RELEASE (irrelevant)
>Organization:
>Environment:
irrelevant ... see under
>Description:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html
has a link "Care should be taken when running PPPoE with the -nat option." When the link is followed there is a list of 29 items, only #24 appears relevant to the -nat option. Since many users would have no interest whatever in whether or not games get broken, I'd like to see this item clarified with a mention at the pppoe page that this relates to games ONLY. 


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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/27320: excessively vague information in pppoe page of Handbook 
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:40:25 -0700

 Please wrap your lines at 72 characters.  Thanks.
 
 dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au writes:
 > 
 > >Number:         27320
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       excessively vague information in pppoe page of Handbook
 > >Description:
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html
 > has a link "Care should be taken when running PPPoE with the -nat
 > option." When the link is followed there is a list of 29 items, only
 > #24 appears relevant to the -nat option. Since many users would have
 > no interest whatever in whether or not games get broken, I'd like to
 > see this item clarified with a mention at the pppoe page that this
 > relates to games ONLY.
 
 I think there are two separate, albeit similar, issues here.  First is
 that the page you mention above links to a nonexistent FAQ entry.
 Apparently the author was planning on writing one, and made the link,
 but never got around to it.  The second issue is that the FAQ entry
 about games not working with -nat is short-sighted; the issue is that
 software which assumes that the client can accept TCP connections
 won't work.  Games just happen to be a good example of this.
 
 Perhaps you would like to send an FAQ addition to remedy one or both
 of these problems?
 
 Thanks,
 
 					Dima Dorfman
 					dima@unixfreak.org
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->brian 
Responsible-Changed-By: murray 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Sep 2 16:43:40 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Brian is our PPP guru. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27320 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: brian 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 2 19:29:50 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
The handbook has been updated.  The pros and cons of NAT are not relevant 
in a PPPoE howto... 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27320 
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