Paul Gear wrote: > > Tom has finally admitted what some of us have thought all along. The > day had to come. If you get to the point where you're not happy with > your life, something has to give. And since none of us owe you > anything, i think you've made the right choice, Tom. Best of luck and > God bless.
Thank you Paul. > > Righto, lads! Now what are we going to do about this? I for one am > reluctant to lose shorewall, as it is the only firewall i trust. > > As for the mechanics of shorewall.net going away: we have a functional > sourceforge.net project page and web site for shorewall. If Tom is > willing, perhaps he could add some of us on the devel list as project > admins on his sf.net page, and we could make sure all of the right > information is copied over from his site. I will be happy to add additional admins at SF. > Am i right in remembering > that lists.shorewall.net is hosted elsewhere, Tom? No, lists.shorewall.net is hosted here in my home. It's the same box as http://shorewall.net which is the system that all of the mirrors (including www.shorewall.net) rsync from. I don't mind continuing to host the mailing lists here for a while until mailing lists can be reestablished at SF (they were there once upon a time). > > - We need to look at the big issues and make sure we've got a good > handle on them. For me, these include (in rough order of priority from > my perspective): > * Multiple ISPs & load balancing > * Features to enable building a personal firewall with shorewall > * IPv6 > I think that is a good list. I hope to have the first (multiple ISPs/Load-balancing) completed in release 2.4.0 (it should work in the current CVS code but I have to lash together a test bed to try it). I'll still run a beta/RC-series for that release so it should be fairly solid by the time that I throw it over the wall for good. Netfilter is weak on features for a personal firewall. I have added support for the 'owner' match (including 'owner-cmd') but that isn't a strong enough base to build what most people think of as a personal firewall. IPV6 is a big job -- that will keep folks busy coding for a while :-) -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
