Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall maintenance

2025-02-06 Thread justina colmena ~biz via Shorewall-users
Not to interrupt, but at least there's a decent reply-to on this mailing list. Everything is in a bit of a shake-up with CentOS going E.O.L. and Bill Gates grinning from ear to ear after Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub and IBM's acquisition of Red Hat. I could come up with numerous conspiracy

Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall maintenance

2025-02-06 Thread Winston Sorfleet
Shorewall (and Shorewall6) has been fantastic to me, as a multi-ISP user.  I'm deeply indebted to Tom for this fantastic tool, and all the work he put into the documentation especially. Nothing else seems to come close to ease-of-configuration and maintenance.  I'm dreading the day when Debian

Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall maintenance

2025-02-06 Thread Jlem
Thank you for your answer Phil. >I'm not sure what you mean by this, but I personally do not trust ANY >code written by large language models. OK you may doubt, naturally. the best way to evacuate doubt is to try it yourself. I am not very advanced in this matter , but I can say you that I tried

Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall maintenance

2025-02-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 2/6/25 10:28, Sam wrote: I think the bigger issue is that Shorewall is more of an iptables configuration tool. And iptables is now deprecated. Then what is needed is perhaps a project to update shorewall to emit the CURRENT flavor of Linux firewalling rules. (One that **does not** depend

Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall maintenance

2025-02-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 2/6/25 08:36, Jlem wrote: Dear Shorewall friends, I have been using Shorewall for 20 years. I find it very close to the simple description of network use cases, ignoring the assembly-like language that can be seen on other products. Thus we have a very readable and therefore very maintainabl

Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall maintenance

2025-02-06 Thread Sam
On 2/6/25 08:36, Jlem wrote: Dear Shorewall friends, I have been using Shorewall for 20 years. I find it very close to the simple description of network use cases, ignoring the assembly-like language that can be seen on other products. Thus we have a very readable and therefore very maintainabl

Re: [Shorewall-users] shorewall maintainance?

2025-02-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 03:46 +0100, Matt Darfeuille wrote: > > Monkeypatching.. Could you expand? Cheers, b. ___ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users

[Shorewall-users] Shorewall maintenance

2025-02-06 Thread Jlem
Dear Shorewall friends, I have been using Shorewall for 20 years. I find it very close to the simple description of network use cases, ignoring the assembly-like language that can be seen on other products. Thus we have a very readable and therefore very maintainable language. In short, I find it h