[Firehol-devs] New firehol development

[Tsaousis, Costa]

Hi Phil,

Thank you for working on firehol. I already did a check on your code; is
perfect! I you create a patch, please note that my development brach has
fast activation (it may require from you some more tweaking).

Unfortunatelly in this side of the world, no one offers ipv6 yet, so I
don't use it. I'll be glad if you maintain ipv6 support.

I'll also be glad if you take care of releases, site/documentation and user
support. This is the main reason I stopped releasing firehol (although I
did commit code and updated docs in cvs). Every release required from me a
tremendous amount of time documenting it, supporting new users, fixing
distribution related issues, etc. I'll help, but I can't take care of it
entirelly by myself.

I beleive we should use github for code and support requests. I use github
daily for very large private projects and I am excited the way it
associates issues with commits and releases/milestones.

II would prefer and I'll be pleased if we keep the name firehol, but if the
name sanewall is a requirement from you, I'll accept it.

If you decide we keep the name firehol, I'll give you all rights on firehol
github repo and sourceforge project.

Do you believe we can join forces on such a basis?

Best Regards,

Costa



2013/9/29 Phil Whineray <phil at sanewall.org>

> Hi Costa and welcome back
>
> The two projects are really the same fork - I started sanewall in
> March 2012 after I was unable to contact you about adding the IPv6
> patches I originally produced back in 2010.
>
> For me that is still the main driver for sanewall and if we can get
> IPv6 support into FireHOL then I don't have a strong desire to
> maintain a separate project.
>
> At the point I made the fork I started over and produced a sanewall
> package then rebased all of the IPv6 work on top of that. The effect is
> that this git repo should apply easily to FireHOL:
>   git://github.com/mikemol/fireholv6.git
>
> This one will not, but contains a variety of extra fixes:
>   git://git.sanewall.org/sanewall.git
>
> If you are able to take a look at the former and decide if the main
> idea is OK for you, then I will do the work to rebase better patches
> from the sanewall onto your repo, so you get up to date patches with
> fixes to apply.
>
> Kind Regards
> Phil
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:46:44PM +0300, Tsaousis, Costa wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I didn't know about these forks. I am, at least, pleased.
> > I'll be glad to join forces to one project.
> >
> > About FireQOS: I wrote a small wiki about it and its usage:
> > https://github.com/ktsaou/firehol/wiki/FireQOS
> >
> > Anyone tried it?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Costa
> >
> >
> > 2013/9/26 Tsaousis, Costa <costa at tsaousis.gr>:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I know there has been some time since my last activity on this list.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I have two major developments to announce:
> > >
> > > 1. A new firehol that activates the firewall instantly. This is a lot
> > > faster and if it proves stable, I can make it even faster. Please test
> > > it and report problems to github (open a new issue).
> > >
> > > 2. FireQOS a traffic shapper that utilizes IFB devices to shape both
> > > incoming and outgoing traffic on any interface. I have added to it the
> > > ability to calculate DSL overheads. This is "perfect shapping" in both
> > > incoming and outgoing traffic.
> > >
> > > I have moved development to github:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/ktsaou/firehol/tree/development
> > >
> > > To use fast activation, just add FIREHOL_FAST_ACTIVATION=1 at the top
> > > of your firehol.conf
> > >
> > > To use fireqos (no documentation yet), see the example:
> > >
> https://github.com/ktsaou/firehol/blob/development/examples/fireqos.conf
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Costa
> >
> >
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