From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HvmiO-0002KB-FI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:01:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l563xk2U029093; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:59:46 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l563tNdx024242 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:55:24 GMT Received: from [4.230.219.58] (dialup-4.230.219.58.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.219.58]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l563sxqj001380 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:55:05 -0500 Message-ID: <46663010.4060304@exceedtech.net> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:54:56 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070602 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter? References: <9acccfe50706052039w4686c6e5i6e6c586f56b71872@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50706052039w4686c6e5i6e6c586f56b71872@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2086a981-6aa8-4c69-a07b-b865ec2e5962 X-Archives-Hash: 2c8d01b87a1a047fb23e143c6c0bb1f8 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I had firestarter-1.0.3 emerged for quite some time. I hadn't really > used it, but I'm a bit surprised now to find that it's interfering > with normal emerges because it's got a big red "M" smacked on it. > > I suppose that means there's a problem with it, and it's explained in > some forum or list that I don't normally get. But now I'd like a > clue: what's the {prognosis, workaround, fix, alternative}. As I > mentioned, I hadn't really started to use it, but I'd like to have a > better firewall tool than building iptables scripts in vim. > This is from the Gentoo dev list. > The upstream development for firestarter has been dead for some time > (last news update Jul 31 2005). Recent changes to the netfilter code > in the kernel have caused firestarter not to work (see bug #179792). > That bug has a patch that fixes that particular problem but the fact that > upstream is dead, the several other open bugs about firestarter and the > fact that I no longer use it myself mean I'm masking it for removal. > > I feel there are several good alternatives in net-firewall/ to use as > replacements for the iptables-generating aspect of firestarter. If > someone > would like to pick up and maintain this package, they're welcome to it, > otherwise, I'll remove it in thirty days. > > Michael Sterrett > -Mr. Bones.- So, if you like firestarter, better say something pretty soon. ;-) That help any?? Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list