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Hi folks, I''m conducting a straw poll for your opinions on whether we should send CVS commit logs (probably with diffs) to the shorewall-devel list, or to another (new) list? I can see advantages to both ways: separate lists mean that people who aren''t contributing code don''t get flooded with code noise, but a single list will help keep everyone involved in the

Hi, I read the news about Tom Steps quit. I use shorewall for some days now and as many people I ike it very much. I asked Tom in a personal mail, what could be done to continue the project and he told me I had to subscribe to this list. My ideas where: a) Mirroring the site b) I would like to study the code and help c) I am studying computer science and I could ask some teachers and friends

As 2.2.0 is nearing release, I''ve begun to think about what I''ll do for 2.3 and I think that it is time for Shorewall to add support for IPV6. Because of parsing ambiguities, the need to maintain upward compatibility with both Shorewall and 6Wall, and different available functionality in IPV4 and IPV6 Netfilter, I believe that it is going to be necessary for some files to be

I think that the time has come for me to back off a bit from my involvement with Shorewall. I just don''t have enough cycles (or energy) to keep up the pace of the last several months. As a consequence, I''m going to do the following: 1. I''m going to stop personally supporting the entry level tools (samples and quick start guide). These tools are a source of constant

Although Shorewall provides safeguards against it, people seem to regularly shoot themselves in the foot when doing remote system administration. I''ve been thinking about this problem and wonder if a change to the way that "shorewall stop" behaves might help. Today, "shorewall stop" stops all traffic except to/from those destinations listed in

Now that 1.3 is out, I thought it would be a good idea to tell you what my plans are for Shorewall and to solicit input from this list. My focus for the next several minor releases will be to incorporate recent Netfilter enhancements into Shorewall. For example, this afternoon I have integrated support for the ''multiport'' match facility. I would like to defer the next minor

Hi folks, Last night and this morning i''ve hacked up a quick web site for coordinating our development work based on Drupal (http://drupal.org). You can find it at: http://shorewall.dyndns.org I''ve put a few ideas in there - feel free to use the comments or sign up for an account and create your own pages (particularly in the two books about development and web site work).

Greetings to all of the Shorewall community! We''d like to find out a little more about the environments in which Shorewall runs, and to this end i''ve created a survey. It is mostly designed to allow Shorewall users to see how their environment compares with that of the average Shorewall user (if such a thing exists!), but the results may be used by the Shorewall team to assist

The 3.1 Beta is now available -- check the Shorewall home page. -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

Anyone know how/where we can get some? It has been raised before: http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users/2004-July/013594.html I''d like to see an IRC or Jabber service for both support and development. -- Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- Did you know? OpenOffice.org has built-in PDF creation. Better yet, it''s compatible with Microsoft Office, and

Tom, Can you/someone get a news feed setup for shorewall announcements? If not, I''ll have to make use of the shorewall rss feeds at SF. Project RSS Feeds: shorewall http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_project.php?group_id=22587 BTW, planetplanet.org has links to some cool feeds. -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net

Greetings, What programming languages besides shell scripting are used in shorewall? What knowledge is needed to help in shorewall development? I figure iptables is a goood bet but is there anything else as well? Thank you for your time. Regards, Jason

Hello, I leave for a couple days .. (Well months) and look at what has happened. :-) I would throw my support in behind Xoops .. to be honest .. If a portal is what we are trying to achieve here. I just happen to think that sometimes .. More work goes into web design etc than goes into actual Code. But thats because I am a lamer at web design :-) I am coming in here a bit late .. But tell

Hi folks, When we first started talking about Shorewall post-Tom, a few people offered to help with testing. Would those people please raise their hands again? :-) I''m investigating Nicolas Helleringer''s recent message on shorewall-users (http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users/2005-June/018898.html), and a good test environment would come in really handy,

Hello Everyone, This morning I received a personal email from a recent poster asking "Why is Mr. Eastep so mean?". The post went on to explain that I had responded abruptly to the person''s request for help and asked why I wasn''t more helpful to people attempting to understand something new. Good question. Over the last nine months, I have been struggling to deal with

2005/5/27, Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org>: > > I think a champion for the samples is just what we need right now. Tom > carried so much of shorewall completely on his own, but we can''t afford > to do that. We need each person to take responsibility in one > particular area, and then get in and *do* it. The samples are there in > CVS now

The 1.2 firewall contains messy logic to support the old sample configurations in that any rule that contains "none" in any of its columns is ignored. I''m considering removing that messiness in 1.3 and seek the opinion of the list. Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 (We''re Edition 3!) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as spam). Securing your Network Connection using OpenSSL OpenSSL is a very important protocol in this day and age. The profilteration of the internet has made this

Rather than have lots of folks downloading a version with a broken ''check'' command, I''ve released 1.4.1a that corrects the problem. Sorry for the back-to-back releases today... -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.sf.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

Hi folks, Has anyone out there done port forwarding or DNAT for UDP packets that are normally sent to the broadcast address (255.255.255.255)? I have to support a nasty database application called FileMaker Pro (those of you who know it are probably groaning about now), which uses broadcasts to locate the database server. Theoretically, i can get around this requirement by using LDAP lookups