I've been playing withe the "latest" ippool and associated modules. It
seems a little backwards to me. I would think that one could create an
empty pool (much like one creates an empty chain) and then populate it
with ippool -A commands (much like one populates iptables the same way).
Instead it seems that it wants a fixed-range pool defined, and only
allows you to add and delete from that range. (I understand this is a
limitation of the "bitmap proof-of-concept").
I've been through the archives and there was a flurry of activity on
this topic at the end of March of 2001, with a lot of forward-thinking
and good ideas. Wondering if anyone was working on any of that? If not,
I'd like to take a stab at some of it (namely the ability to maintain
dynamic lists like chains). I'm probably a horrible C programmer these
days, as I've been engulfed in Perl for the last few years but I used to
be decent at it, and as this is something I really really would like to
see efficiently working, I'd be willing to dump some time at the
problem. I've checked out the CVS code, and it looks straight forward
enough. If anyone has any uncommitted code they'd like to share or
commit to CVS that'd be helpful.
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Matthew Keller
Enterprise System Analyst
Computing & Technology Services
Information Services Division
State University of NY at Potsdam
Potsdam, NY USA
http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/
