Greetings, All Mike Noyes has a charming way of getting newbies to introduce themselves to the group. Who would think that such an innocent request is just as loaded as ... well you know what I mean.
When I first laid eyes on a computer, I was seventeen years old. I know, I know it's kind of late but you have to understand: the year was 1970. The fact that I am still programming all kinds of things makes me a living dinosaur! I still have the same girlfriend, which must make me a lovable beast, but I did pick up four kids that somewhat slowed down my coding :-) . My contribution to LEAF, for now, is PacketFilter, available at http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/scaron. PacketFilter innovates in its packaging by referencing a "base" LEAF (LRP) distribution that should be "loosely" common to "appliances" such as PacketFilter. For now, the bootdisk contains a verbatim copy of Charles's Dachstein 1.02 root,etc,log,local files. By reusing a common "enclosure" for several "appliances" you get a faster development cycle. In this instance, PacketFilter is packaged as an "appliance" on top of an "appliance". PacketFilter itself is not bad :-). If you use it as is, you can manage as many NICs as you can fit in the box in a combo bridge/router/NATer of your choice. So the next time you say the router will be up in 15 minutes, it will only be TWICE that time :-)... However, the software is designed to be transformed into something custom made and allows various facilities expected a development environment. It is still LEAF and it can and should use all the LRP packages out there. This was my primary motivation for writing it in the first place. As you can see by how this introduction shifted from me to the product, I am a project oriented person. I look forward to all your comments. Regards, Serge Caron _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
