Re: Fwd: Linux support in IPFilter

Ross Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Darren Reed <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
>         How best can I assist the IPFilter team to ensure that you're
>         rather exceptional firewall code is easier to compile for
>         whatever the latest stable version of the Linux kernel is on
>         kernel.org <http://kernel.org> <http://kernel.org>? (I always
>         work from pristine source and avoid custom patching at all cost.)
> 
> 
>     Hmm, so you want to use the Linux kernel from kernel.org
>     <http://kernel.org> withut patching?
> 
>     That might be an achievable goal...
> 
>     The problem I usually have is that the kernels bundled up by SuSE,
>     RedHat,
>     etc, etc, can be quite a pain in the a** to build from source code
>     and that
>     ability is needed to compile a kernel module.
> 
> 
> Agreed the custom patched kernel's from SUSE/Novell, RedHat/Fedora, et 
> al are generally a pain in my rump.
> 
> My thought pattern being that if we make an effort to support the 
> upstream vanilla code from Linus then its more likely that we'd get 
> people that will put in the time to write the patches needed to work on 
> the various binary distro's.
>     After all they all generally start out with the vanilla release from 
> Linus and patch it to wherever it is they want the code to be.
> 
> Reason being is after spending far too many years working on different 
> embedded projects the one thing thats ALWAYS a thorn in my side is the 
> firewalling code is almost always different from project to project.
>     I'd LOVE to be able to start standardizing!
> 
> How can I assist in achieving this aim?
>     I'd be more than happy to do all the testing whenever Linus and 
> friends release a new stable version of 2.6.x (kinda needed any way by 
> my project(s) ).
>     And depending on how severe the breakage is I might be able to fix 
> it (not the world's best kernel hacker - but willing to give it a bash 
> while I'm learning ).
> 
Hi Ross,

Have you been able to make any progress on this effort? I am greatly interested
since we are using FreeBSD for a firewall and would like to move our code to Linux
without having to change our firewall rules configuration generator.

Regards,
Steve