On Friday 08 February 2002 02:53 pm, David Brown wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: w9ya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:34 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Fwd: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules > > > > Finally someone at e-smith/Mitel that can state the obvious > > without being in > > middle of a cat-fight. Thank you. > > Apparently you missed the several posts that Charlie Brady and Dan York > made in regards to the 2.4.x kernel upgrade and ext3 support. This post > was simply a restatement of something that has already been discussed. > Bottom line, there are not enough freely available masq modules to maintain > SME's present functionality as a gateway if it moves to a 2.4.x series > kernel. Is this really news to anyone that has been following this list?
Well, they have NOT communicated a time-frame as near as I can tell. Sorry if it was not obvious that I am seeking an answer of when, and something more than; "when somebody does this for us." > > > Now, perhaps we can take this a step further. Many other distros are > > being used for firewalling, including firewall centered distros > > (clarkconnect among > > others), that successfully use the 2.4 kernel. There are plenty > > of examples > > of distros that have moved early and successfully to the these > > newer kernels, > > including manged server distros. > > The step further (to do it right) would be to help develop/port the > necessary masq modules to the 2.4.x kernel. This seems to be the key to > get Mitel to move the SME server to the 2.4.x kernel. The point is, many distros have migrated from 2.2 to 2.4 and have this functionality. I consider many of these to have done it right. Other distros have created answers to their unique or not so unique challenges with this not so 2.4.x kernel series. I am now asking when e-smith/Mitel plans to. > > > It would be nice if e-smith/Mitel could give us a time-line of when these > > discussed and/or needed changes are planned to take place. If there is no > > reasonable answer forthcoming, please do not spend the time to reply. > > Mitel has no idea when third party developers will have working masq > modules ready for production use, and I highly doubt that any road map they > present will include them developing these modules. Why can't we as > developers work on some of these modules to help out the community instead > of expecting Mitel to do it for us? They have in house development staff. I would like it if the management would manage and create a time-line, with the help of "third parties" if they so choose, and/or with this in-house staff. So far about all I have seen is excuses why e-smith/Mitel is not and/or has not done this conversion. I am now asking when. Bob > > David M. Brown > Frick, Frick & Jetté Architects > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
