On Friday 08 February 2002 05:04 pm, you wrote: > On Friday, February 08, 2002, w9ya wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > The point is, many distros have migrated from 2.2 to 2.4 and have this > > functionality. I consider many of these to have done it right. > > Other distros > > have created answers to their unique or not so unique challenges > > with this > > not so 2.4.x kernel series. I am now asking when e-smith/Mitel plans to. > > Could you be a little more specific here? Perhaps you could share with us > specifically which other distros have this functionality, so we could try > to track down how they accomplished it and look for info as to how we can > incorporate that into the SME server and gateway. I know that several > people here would be willing to look, given a place.
I think the confusion is based on trying to both firewall and serve? At least it is for me. I seem to remember when e-smith recommended that firewalling and serving should be done separately, on separate equipment. I tend to agree with that. Bob > > 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
