> -----Original Message----- > From: w9ya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fwd: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules > > Finally someone at e-smith/Mitel that can state the obvious > without being in > middle of a cat-fight. Thank you.
Apparently you missed the several posts that Charlie Brady and Dan York made in regards to the 2.4.x kernel upgrade and ext3 support. This post was simply a restatement of something that has already been discussed. Bottom line, there are not enough freely available masq modules to maintain SME's present functionality as a gateway if it moves to a 2.4.x series kernel. Is this really news to anyone that has been following this list? > Now, perhaps we can take this a step further. Many other distros are being > used for firewalling, including firewall centered distros > (clarkconnect among > others), that successfully use the 2.4 kernel. There are plenty > of examples > of distros that have moved early and successfully to the these > newer kernels, > including manged server distros. The step further (to do it right) would be to help develop/port the necessary masq modules to the 2.4.x kernel. This seems to be the key to get Mitel to move the SME server to the 2.4.x kernel. > It would be nice if e-smith/Mitel could give us a time-line of when these > discussed and/or needed changes are planned to take place. If there is no > reasonable answer forthcoming, please do not spend the time to reply. Mitel has no idea when third party developers will have working masq modules ready for production use, and I highly doubt that any road map they present will include them developing these modules. Why can't we as developers work on some of these modules to help out the community instead of expecting Mitel to do it for us? David M. Brown Frick, Frick & Jetté Architects [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
