[Firehol-support] firehol extra tools

[Tsaousis, Costa]

link-balancer is a tool that allows to setup and maintain multiple
concurrently active, balanced gateways (default or any other kind). It
tries to fill the gap that the standard linux tools (like iproute2) do
not address (for example, when there is a balanced gateway setup and
one of them is lost, the whole gateway route is lost - it also allows
you to setup some kind of inheritance among routing tables).

So, it is a tool that complements both firehol and fireqos, but is
independent of them. Currently firehol, fireqos and link-balancer
share only custom mark definitions (defined in firehol, saved in
/var/cache/firehol and loaded/used by fireqos and link-balancer - this
is only used to reference marks by name - the admin can define marks
by number to avoid this dependency).

update-ipsets is again a standalone tool. It can complement any
firewall, not only firehol. It allows downloading and unifying third
party IP lists (the admin can configure more IP lists sources too) and
can update ipsets in kernel for any firewall (this is not firehol
specific - it will update ipsets in kernel for any netfilter ipset
based firewall).

Costa


On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p at rezozer.net> wrote:
> Hello List:
>
> On 30/12/15 07:10, Tsaousis, Costa wrote:
>> Excellent!
>> Thank you.
>
> You are welcome.
>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p at rezozer.net> wrote:
>>> Hello Forum:
>>>
>>> I am please to announce that iprange is reaching Debian Sid.
>>> For now the package is in the NEW queue [1],
>>> while the git debian material is available a Alioth [2].
>>>
>>> Now I will focus on refreshing the debian material for firehol and its friends.
>
> My current understanding is that update-ipsets is a tool meant to be used with firehol .
> Concerning link-balancer , is it meant to be used with firehol ? or fireqos ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerome
>
>
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jerome
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/iprange_1.0.2%2Bds-1.html
>>> [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/iprange.git/
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