Shorewall Geek wrote: > 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 should be a large red label on the beginning of the README (or at least the Debian install). I see this mentioned in the docs, but I missed it. Sounds like the shell is deprecated. Should people think if migrating? OK, now that I've already gotten it implemented in the shell version I have to re-do this for perl. I know that there are some command differences in there, but I wasn't paying attention to them thinking that I wasn't going to be required to migrate. I don't suppose there is a short list of what to check? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
