"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:15:53PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > "David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Jeff Zhang wrote: > > > > The BTS of shorewall has a little long time between responses to bugs > > > > report and 3.0.7 is also very lag of official stable version(3.2.4). > > > > Does anybody maintain it? > > > > > > I like shorewall. But I too am worried by to big lag. I don't want to > > > run an out-of-date firewall. > > > > The actual firewall is your kernel. Shorewall is just a nicer way of > > configuring it. I'm not very worried about the lag. Just consider > > stable still runs 2.2.3 > > > I just emailed Lorenzo Martignoni, the Debian shorewall maintainer, to > offer my help in getting the 3.2 version packaged up so that it can ship > with Etch. I also use shorewall on all my machines and think it is > great. Due to some bugs and other configuration issues, specifically > with virtual networking/bridging in relation to Xen, I had to update to > version 3.0.6 before it was in Debian. When 3.0.7 was uploaded into > Debian, I immediately downloaded the packages and was quite happy that > it had made it in. I really would like to see the most up to date > shorewall in Debian. If anyone is able to test the packages and is > willing to help, that may speed the process. I will report back once I > hear from Lorenzo.
Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on my firewall/gateway and was planning to make it pure stable when etch gets released. But I could make an exception for a good cause :) My setup is pretty simple though, I'm not sure if it's suitable for extensive testing it. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
