Does pfSense have a "crowd funding" page for projects (I've never seen one)?  
At the risk of creating more work for someone, having a page that lists 
something such as project name and description, funding requirement, estimated 
delivery method and timing once funded along with some buttons to allow 
contributions via credit card and PayPal funds could go a long way to getting 
things like this rolling.

If it was me, I'd have the start of each potential "crowd funded" project be a 
forum and list announcement of a set-time "interest survey" (say 1 week) that 
would allow people to express how much money they'd be willing to donate and 
that would give an idea of the viability of the request as a crowd-funded 
effort.  I wouldn't be surprised if some such open-source web software already 
exists.

I'd definitely be willing to contribute a small amount to such a "would it 
pass"/what-if capability to be added to pfSense.  While I'm a little surprised 
that something like this doesn't already exist, given its obvious value, I'd 
also guess that it'd be a rather involved task.


On 2013-Mar-20, at 11:16 AM, Jim Pingle <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/20/2013 1:58 PM, Bryan D. wrote:
>> Thanks.  I was hoping someone, likely the pfSense guys if it didn't already 
>> exist, had developed a command/tool that would allow one to ask pf's 
>> filtering mechanisms whether "this could talk to that" via the current 
>> config/rules.  It seems that this would be not only invaluable for (at least 
>> preliminary) testing, but would also be good for admins to check whether 
>> they seem to have gotten things configured correctly.
> 
> Doesn't exist yet, but it's something we've thought about.
> 
> http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2771
> 
> If someone wants to code it or fund it, it might show up in a release
> sooner rather than later...
> 
> Jim

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