diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml
index a92ef438f1..6e3a3ce5ec 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml
@@ -2026,13 +2026,11 @@ net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit=5</programlisting>
 
       <programlisting>options    IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=5</programlisting>
 
-      <para>This specifies the default number of packets from a
-        particular rule is to be logged. Without this option, each
-        repeated occurrences of the same packet will be logged, and
-        eventually consuming all the free disk space resulting in
-        services being denied do to lack of resources. The number <literal>5</literal> is the
-        number of consecutive times to log evidence of this unique
-        occurrence.</para>
+      <para>Limits the number of packets logged through
+	&man.syslogd.8; on a per entry basis.  You may wish to use
+	this option in hostile environments which you want to log
+	firewall activity.  This will close a possible denial of
+	service attack via syslog flooding.</para>
 
       <indexterm>
 	<primary>kernel options</primary>