* Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:04:29:11:36:11-0500] scribed: > Michael D Schleif wrote: > >I have noticed in recent months that Charles is migrating from DCD to > >Bering, and that migration has entailed some sleight-of-hand over > >straight Bering. > > > >Charles, have you published your DCD-Bering ``distribution''? > > > >What do you think? > > Well, I'm not much of a 'magician', but I am upgrading to Bering (at > least on my local firewall...I've still got a bunch (6+) of Dachstein > based machines in production at various other locations). > > I have not yet released a version of my Bering-CD for a few reasons: > > - I want to make sure there are no additional changed required to my new > /linuxrc mods > > - I haven't yet tried the 2.4.24 kernel I want to upgrade to that I > built from the uClibc branch but patched with the Bering version of IPSec > > - I haven't fixed everything related to removing /dev/boot (ie: > packaging scripts), but I don't think there are any problems from this > other than harmless warnings when manually installing packages. > > - General lack of time > > While I am running a 'tweaked' Bering, the main things I modified are > available from my posts to leaf-devel. Other than that, I'm running > Shorewall 1.4.10c (direct from the Shorewall site, unmodified for > 'out-of-the-box' masquerading), and a bunch of packages from DCD (with > newer ssh & bering versions of IPSec). > > I can post a 'release-candidate' iso of what I'm currently running in > production online, if anyone's interested.
Yes, I am interested. I am in no hurry; but, the reason for my post is that I, too, have many DCD's deployed, and I would like to move up to a newer kernel and iptables. When you have time, I will appreciate your work. Thank you. -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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