[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Beccari) writes:

> I installed succesfully several 7.2 SNF (6 installations): customers are 
> happy about the pretty interface (more user-friendly then Cisco IOS) but 
> not at all about performance in some situations as ftp and pop3.
> 
> So I tested new SNF packages and can say: no more latencies in ftp and 
> pop3 protocols. Great! 2.4 is a good features kernel.
> 
> The interface is the same (pretty) but a lot of new features are 
> welcome: vpn, tos, dmz network.
> 
> Shorewall - instead of Bastille-Firewall - seems to work great, but I 
> encoured some bugs: If I try to allow irc traffic (tcp 6667) with 'Add 
> Simple rule' shorewall fails something and all traffic is rejected. I 
> added the rule with 'Add custom rule' and everything worked.
> The only difference in the interface was the port field that was ircd 
> with 'Add Simple rule', and 6667 with 'Add custom rule': so I thing the 
> error is in some xml script.

Hello, 

oups, we have forgotten this known small bug (yahoo messenger, irc, etc
are on comma-separated list taken from the old version and this had to be
adapted to the new system). We will fix it ASAP, thank you for reminding
us that.
 
> Another bug is transparent proxy: I can have it working only writing by 
> myself iptables rules, because if I try throught the interface the proxy 
> traffic is denied for some reason I did not investigate.

what do you mean the proxy thraffic is denied ? Do you have any error
message on a blue screen ? In that case you might have activated
squidGuard or/and Dansguardian (url filtering or/and content filtering)
that need to be configured too.

The transparent proxy works fine here but make sure you have masqueraded
your internal network.

> The nect days I planned to try TOS and VPN features, but now I have 2 
> questions:
> 
> 1) Is a mistake of mine that Squid do not work ?

yes, I think so because it works fine here but I'll check again anyway.

> 2) How long time for a stable release (I see help pages are not ready, 
> so I think SNF is still under developing)
> 

The documentation team is working on the help pages and everything should
be finished by the end of the month. The fonctional part is practically ready.

cheers,
-- 
Florin                  http://www.mandrakesoft.com

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