Hi, As a software developer, I know all about "finishing" software. :)
I remember that. That stemmed from being stuck in a windows only environment and the thought of upgrading our Bering (1.0 I believe, maybe 1.1) router to include latest kernel and security related patches gives me the screaming heebee jeebees. We're running in not broken, so don't even think about touching it mode. I guess it's probably not possible, but I was pondering at that time on a way to automagically create the latest packages with old configuration intact. Which you can't. Technically I'm still (STILL!) working on multi house wireless networks with multiple shared internet connections. Although we very rarely get any time to work on it anymore, as soon as the kitchen is refurbished we have sworn to work on it every Wednesday evening. 8D Another feature we're looking at adding is multicast routing across VPN tunnels. This will allow mDNS and other zero conf stuff to work across our big net and switch on iTunes sharing between our subnets. I think. :S That all seems still very bleeding edge in Linux. Is there an mrouted.lrp about? We've managed to finally connect two houses, get ADSL working in linux (we cheated and bought Ethernet ADSL modems, no firewall, no NAT, just single IP DHCP) as well as 802.11b (cheated again, used an AP as a wireless Ethernet bridge) It's all over one ADSL line though. LARTC says how we set the rest up although everything kinda points to none of this working very well with such a low number of users (route caching :( ). Plus we have to patch and recompile the kernel to get failover working for if a connection goes down >@ Erik Spakman offered to do the compiling for us though, which I will take him up on, one day... when I'm old and grey at this rate. :P Regards, Jim. -----Original Message----- From: cpu memhd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 June 2005 10:33 To: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-user] lets talk about something--anything! Hello James! If software is like fine art then nothing is finished (perfected), only abandoned. There is always something to improve. But in lots of ways, leaf does appear to be complete. The only thing lacking perhaps, is better usability, not features. It seems that upgrading a leaf box can be quite a challenge for many. Though I must say, it is not a big deal for me, due the extensive changes I've made (read, bastardization :). Anyhow, I feel that lrcfg is in need of a major overhaul. I'm sure many will disagree, but, you can't start/stop services from within lrcfg. And it would be nice to be able to save a package while in a package menu (incidentally, I added this capability :). Another problem with lrcfg is that once you have more than 20 config options they scroll off the screen. Btw, you had mentioned something a while back about a high-level tool that could setup/configure a leaf box from A-to-Z. I was working on wizard-like setup tool that could run off a bootable CD, but ultimately decided it probably wasn't what people wanted. I base this theory on the fact that few people request this sort of thing and the fact that Lince never really took off, what do you think? -cpu James Neave wrote: >Maybe it's been perfected? ^^ > >Jim. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! 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