3.2.0 Beta 1 is now available at http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/development/3.2/shorewall-3.2.0-Beta1/. 3.2.0 contains the most significant architectural change to Shorewall since it''s initial release. Previously, the "shorewall start" and "shorewall restart" commands caused the current configuration to be parsed and the resulting set of commands executed in a single step. This approach had two drawbacks: 1) It resulted in new connection requests being rejected or dropped for an extended period of time. Because Shorewall is written in Borne shell, its parsing of the configuration and execution of the resulting commands could take a long time. 2) If a parsing error occurred during start/restart processing, the command was aborted and the previous saved configuration (if any) was reinstantiated. While this resulted in service being restored, it still resulted in a service outage while the unsuccessful command was being executed. Beginning with Shorewall 3.2, the "start" and "restart" commands invoke the Shorewall script compiler which completely parses the configuration and produces a shell program to instantiate the rules characterized by the configuration. If compilation fails, the operation is terminated and the firewall state is unaffected. If compilation succeeds, the generated script is executed; execution time for the script is a fraction of the time spent compiling the configuration to produce the script. Attached please find the details in the release notes, including information about the new "compile" command; check it out. This will be an extended Beta (several months) -- we want to get this right before releasing 3.2.0 and your help in testing will be very much appreciated. Happy testing! -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:49, Tom Eastep wrote:> 3.2.0 Beta 1 is now available atTom Is there an rpm available for this release? Steven. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642
That''s an excellent feature you''ve added, thank you very much. My customers will be pleased there will be no irregular dropouts every time a user hits their quota. Jan On 11/03/06, Steven Springl <steven@springl.ukfsn.org> wrote:> > On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:49, Tom Eastep wrote: > > 3.2.0 Beta 1 is now available at > > Tom > Is there an rpm available for this release? > > Steven. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Shorewall-users mailing list > Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users >
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:49, Tom Eastep wrote: >> 3.2.0 Beta 1 is now available at > > Tom > Is there an rpm available for this release?My RedHat/Fedora rpms are here: http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/shorewall/development/3.2/shorewall-3.2.0-Beta1/ Simon> > Steven. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Shorewall-users mailing list > Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users >------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642
On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:55, Steven Springl wrote:> Is there an rpm available for this release?Oops -- sorry Steven. The new upload script apparently misses the .rpm in a beta or RC release. You can download from: http://www1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/development/3.2/shorewall-3.2.0-Beta1 It will be at the other mirrors later today. Agin, sorry for the oversight, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key