John,
Along with many others I consider the $70 ($140 AUD) well spent. I had a secure router
that the other members of the family could startup/shutdown. I ran it on my cable
modem with out a worry. However, that all changed when I installed firewall-1 +
Securemote. This replaced dedicated dial-up lines.
I now have to run a Red Hat Linux box with a patched Kernel (2.2.17). Kernel 2.0.37
supports IPSEC Masquerade without patches. As STN is based on Kernel 2.0.33, all I
was asking could a newer version be released with 2.0.37 as the Kernel so I can
connect to my firewall using IKE.
The solution I use now is not good as if it is not shutdown properly it has problems
on re-boot. This is not convenient for family members.
Just another $0.02 worth of comment from me.
Regards
Ian
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Subject: [STN] Open Source? Was "A Final plea..."
Sales of ShareTheNet have dropped off almost completely. I believe this is
because of the following factors (in order of precedence):
o There are plenty of inexpensive hardware alternatives that do as great job
of sharing your Internet connection.
o STN does not support PPPoE, IPSec & other features
o The STN web site is old & crummy
o There has not been an update to STN in quite awhile
o I'm sure there's more, but you get the picture.
I've been working on a new version of STN for over a year, but I've come up
against a very difficult technical problem - the newest kernel + the newest
glibc just don't leave me enough room on the floppy for everything else. I
spent time working with uClibc, but that has not panned out so far either.
So, what to do? I'm considering releasing STN as an open source product.
That is, I'll release the source code under the GPL, but still sell support
for it. It will no longer require a registration code to run, but to get
official support you'll have to register it.
I'm worried that I'll get a lot of people saying "hey, I want my $70 bucks
back." Does anyone think this is a reasonable position?
Would anyone on the list sign up to be a developer?
Any suggestions, concerns?
Regards,
John Lombardo
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