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Very impressive that this software was built and maintained by a mostly solo developer into their 70's. Talk about software lifecycle. I wonder if there is much of a community around this software and if there is someone who may take over the future direction, much like how Emacs' head maintainership was recently (relatively) given up by RMS.
github certainly has its problems (feature bloat), but gitlab and bitbucket are options - as well as the new sourcehut
i have tried sourceforge a few times over the years and its just absolute garbage - from the forums to the issues to the source code - the only parts thats worth a damn is the binary downloads - and you can you bintray or a number of other places for that
any project that uses sourceforge for ANYTHING these days - even just docs - i dont touch unless i absolutely have to.
Welp. I recently completed an Arch-linux and PCEngines-based DIY router build and stumbled upon Shorewall as an alternative to straight-up IP tables... I'm not looking forward to changing this setup.
It fits the balance I need between powerful and ease of use (to my limited skill level). UFW seems too simplistic, straight IP Tables to cumbersome.
Either the community picks up the batton and I can still use Shorewall for years to come or I will have to start to try some of the alternatives :|
Thank you mr Eastep, and enjoy your trip.
http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users/2005-Ma...
Not sure what happened back then but he must have had a change of heart?
With all due respect, maybe he would have had better luck moving the community to another site github certainly has its problems (feature bloat), but gitlab and bitbucket are options - as well as the new sourcehut i have tried sourceforge a few times over the years and its just absolute garbage - from the forums to the issues to the source code - the only parts thats worth a damn is the binary downloads - and you can…
With all due respect, maybe he would have had better luck moving the community to another site github certainly has its problems (feature bloat), but gitlab and bitbucket are options - as well as the new sourcehut i have tried sourceforge a few times over the years and its just absolute garbage - from the forums to the issues to the source code - the only parts thats worth a damn is the binary downloads - and you can…
If anyone adopts the project as their own, though, I hope they move to a platform where it's easier for others to contribute.
Welp. I recently completed an Arch-linux and PCEngines-based DIY router build and stumbled upon Shorewall as an alternative to straight-up IP tables... I'm not looking forward to changing this setup.
I stumbled across a blog post that used Arch and Shorewall to roll a diy router. Any chance you used a blog post for inspiration and if so do you have the link still? I have been trying to find it ever since...
The Arch Wiki is pretty awesome, generally, and I used this pretty heavily as a reference. I will say, this was not 100% perfect and I had to use some other outside sources, but most of the info is here.
I did consider writing my own step-by-step post (if for no other reason than for me to not have to remember it), but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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I stumbled across a blog post that used Arch and Shorewall to roll a diy router. Any chance you used a blog post for inspiration and if so do you have the link still? I have been trying to find it ever since...
High likelihood it was this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Router The Arch Wiki is pretty awesome, generally, and I used this pretty heavily as a reference. I will say, this was not 100% perfect and I had to use some other outside sources, but most of the info is here. I did consider writing my own step-by-step post (if for no other reason than for me to not have to remember it), but haven't gotten around to i…