Re: New package netfilter-init to experimental?
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:47:41 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@debian.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Marc Haber wrote:
>> machine takes seven minutes to build a new rule set. It is so slow
>> because everything is implemented as shell scripts. There are plans to
>> convert the significant part of code to C++ and to use iptables
>> --restore to establish the rule set instead of issueing bazillions of
>> iptables calls.
>
>Well, have a look on ipmasq, it uses shell scripts, and I find it to be
>"fast enough"...
I forgot to mention that netfilter-init is a heavily hacked ipmasq.
You will still notice the same structure, but many things have been
added since 1999 when I took ipmasq to start ipchains-init.
>Yes, your package is good enough for experimental, but it makes little sense
>to upload there unless you are going to publically encourage people to use
>it...
The reason I am thinking about experimental is to announce its
publication, and to get rid of the people asking me for the package ;)
Greetings
Marc
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