2002-02-28 00:33:26-0500, Matthew Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> > > 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. >
It's already completly rewritten to support more pooltypes and being more modulized. Its finished and on testing right now as of 2 weeks back. Expect a large patch to be sent in soon. -- /Gozem A.K.A. Joakim Axelsson
