On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 07:44 -0800, Tom Eastep wrote: > 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 have full understand and respect for that. I was just expressing a wish. :) > 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? unfortunally no. users are used to be able to log on the webinterface do the change, and expect the change to happen there and then. Copying out config to a windows machine, need to install a special application (perl/cygwin/shorewall), compile and the copy configs back will not work for us, unfortunally. miniperl and more RAM is what we will have to do if we want continue use shorewall, which might not be too bad. Thanks! -nc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
