On 10/31/2010 21:26, Simon Chang wrote: >> >> At this point as long as Darren works for Oracle, his thoughts and any >> work he generates at this time belongs to Oracle... so in the least >> amount of words, you would not want Darren to contribute anything to >> ipfilter right now as it would ultimately be owned by Oracle. >> >> So... fork it, or otherwise its dead in the water unless Darren finds a >> way to contribute to it without jeopardizing its integrity. >> >> http://marc.info/?l=ipfilter&m=127340750503475&w=2 >> >> -- >> >> jhell,v >> > > That's a shame, because I believe I recently confirmed a problem report that > is still gathering dust in the FreeBSD database and not responded to. The > problem states that the "portmap" directive does not work properly, and we > have network dumps of the command shredding our packets as they transit the > firewall. >
I think Ive seen that same bug at some point but ultimately wound up migrating to OpenBSD pf41 that is in FreeBSD now. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a portable filtering solution that spans across the BSD's and other OS's ;( like what IPFilter did. Would have been nice if some of the features that were in pf41 could have been integrated into IPFilter too. > Here is the thing: Even if Darren can no longer maintain ipfilter, what > does it cost him to put a word on the main website saying so? He doesn't > even really need to elaborate why. All he has to do is say something like > "forks are welcome - goodbye and good luck", and he can get this off his > back. > > SC > I suppose doing something like that would be similiar to a mother trying to say goodbye to her baby. But Darren also said that he was looking into possibilities to still maintain it and probably has not come to that yet. We'll just hope that comes about sometime or another. -- jhell,v
