Tom Allison wrote: > d) This intrigues me. Why Shorewall-perl? debugging support? This is > the first I heard someone promoting the perl implimentation.
a) The shell implementation hasn't had any active development in two years. So all new features introduced in the last year and a half are only available in the perl version. b) The perl implementation is an order of magnitude faster compiling the firewall configuration. c) The perl implementation is an order of magnitude faster instantiating the firewall configuration. d) The perl implementation doesn't disable new connections during start/restart. e) The perl diagnostics are much better and the perl implementation catches many more configuration errors at compile time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
