On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 08:12 -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:

> So the only plan that I have for 4.4 right now is to discontinue
> Shorewall-shell.

...

> Anyone have something on their wish list that we might want to add to 4.4?

shorewall-lua?

perl is way to bloaty for small boxes. Even miniperl is atleast 1MB.
(the busybox shell is approx 64kb and must be there anyway)
shorewall-lite is not practical in many sitauations. We send out
preconfigured boxes with shorewall firewall. Many (most?) users dont
know linux very well and many does not have a deep understanding in
firewalling. Telling them to setup an another linux box so they can
generate a config for shorewall-lite is just not realistic.

a shorewall-lua would be just perfect. lua is 1/5 of the size of
miniperl and is also faster.

thanks!

-nc


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