Re: [leaf-devel] Project description

2008-03-10 Thread Luis.F.Correia
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Mike Noyes > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 5:55 PM > To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Project description > > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:58 +0100, Martin Hejl wrote: > >

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering uClibc with Kernel 2.6

2008-03-10 Thread David Nicol
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Martin Hejl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a little depressing. After spending years (and tons of emails) > discussing the need for a kernel 2.6 version of LEAF, there has been no > response on this list on the topic. Is somebody actually interes

Re: [leaf-devel] Project description

2008-03-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Everyone, | We seem to have agreement on a name switch from Firewall to Framework. I | think we can make this change now, and continue work on a description | for later adoption. Is this acceptable? | | Mike Noyes +1 Charles Steinkuehler +1 - -- Ch

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering uClibc with Kernel 2.6

2008-03-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Titl wrote: | Actually playing with e1000 for 2.4 reset me a little lately. Definitely | I am convinced that if LEAF wants to go on strongly we need to be on par | with other project which do similar work, e.g. 2.6 is a must. | | And for all you

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering uClibc with Kernel 2.6

2008-03-10 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Nicol, thanks for your feedback, > I had no trouble running the 3.1 release candidate with a static 2.6 kernel; Well, but doesn't a static kernel (I assume you mean that everything you needed was compiled into the kernel statically, rather than as a module) pretty much stand against everythin

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering uClibc with Kernel 2.6

2008-03-10 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Charles, > Besides driver issues, another reason to migrate to a 2.6 kernel is > support for IPV6, which will become vastly more important in the years > to come, particularly outside the US, where the IPV4 address pool is > already beginning to be exhausted. Good point. I haven't had to touch

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering uClibc with Kernel 2.6

2008-03-10 Thread Martin Hejl
oops - sorry > Hi Nicol, make that "Hi David" sorry about that Martin - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct

Re: [leaf-devel] Bering uClibc with Kernel 2.6

2008-03-10 Thread Paul Rogers
> But sooner or later, floppy support will have to go anyway - since there > won't be any new systems that are shipped with a floppy. For embedded Who dedicates a new box to running a LEAF firewall with all the free old boxes around? ;-) "But seriously folks", for those who DO use old hardware t