Erich Titl <erich.t...@think.ch> wrote:

> But back to shorewall, do you see any way
> your work could be carried on?

One of the issues is that iptables is being deprecated. AIUI, it's already to 
the stage where nft must be installed and ipt cmd line tools are being 
relabelled *-legacy - and they call translation tools to translate ipt calls 
into nft. Or something like that.
There's also the bpf package that looks like it might be better - but it's only 
at an early stage.

Whatever happens, Shorewall as it is now will be obsolete. It would need 
someone with a good skill set (which rules me out) to determine which parts can 
be re-used, and to write new translators to convert the Shorewall configs into 
whatever packet filtering system ends up becoming "the standard".

So given that there's this huge "end of the line" sign up for iptables based 
tools, seems like a good time for Tom to be stopping the train. He's driven it 
well for a good time - and I think we all agree he has saved us all a heck of a 
lot of pain over the years.



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