Natanael Copa wrote: > 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.
Note that it is not necessary to set up another Linux system -- Shorewall-perl runs fine on Windows under Cygwin. Installing Cygwin under Vista and getting everything to work properly is tricky but it can be cook booked so that anyone can do it. > > a shorewall-lua would be just perfect. lua is 1/5 of the size of > miniperl and is also faster. Shorewall-lua might be perfect for the embedded community but I have no interest in spending another year and a half writing another rules compiler (that is what it took to become fluent in Perl and to develop Shorewall-perl -- remember that I have to do this in my spare time). I might spend some time though investigating what it would take to get Shorewall-perl running natively under windows. Would that be an acceptable solution? -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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