Re: alternatives to m0n0

On 16/02/15 18:33, Bao Ha wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Lee Sharp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 02/16/2015 11:01 AM, Thomas Sprinzing wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> maybe it’s worth while to open another thread for those of you feeling
>>> stranded.
>>>
>> Not a bad plan... :)
>>
>> I also have been doing this a while, and have a lot of firewalls out there
>> on single core machines with 256meg flash on board.  (So OpenSense is out)
>>
>> I used to play a bit with pfSense, and recommend it in some cases, but...
>> Chris partnered with a new guy, and the new guy is the cause of all of the
>> woes you have mentioned.  He is combative, and unprofessional, and is
>> constantly looking to maximize revenue at the expense of everything else.
>> I had worked with Chris a few times over the years, so when his partner
>> blasted me on LinkedIn, I tried to contact Chris privately to find out what
>> was going on.  I heard nothing, so I suspect he is contractually enjoyed
>> from saying anything.  This means that I can not trust Chris (who I still
>> consider a very good guy) to keep pfSense trustworthy.  So pfSense is off
>> the table.
>>
> Jim roughed me up too early last year! I still like Chris and he was very
> helpful before Jim arrived.
>
>
>> ...
>>
>> Right now, however, I am doing nothing.  I am waiting to see if Manual
>> will change his mind, or let others take the project.  (Yes, I will assist,
>> if asked)  I do not suspect he will, :) but I want to give him that time.
>> He has given us so much, and he deserves that.
>>
>> But if not, I am looking at who could join me in a fork.  I can set up the
>> hosting needed, and I can manage a project.  But I am a poor coder. :)  If
>> some of the other devs are interested, we could do a small fork.  It would
>> not be too hard, as there is little to fix.  We do not want to make
>> m0n0wall biger, or we would just use OpenSense. :)  We just need to fix
>> bugs, and upgrade some things. (WebGUI, and VPN options come to mind)
>
> Contact me when you are ready. I will see what we can do to help then.
>
> Bao
>
>
>>
>>                          Lee
>>
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Lee, also let me now if you are dooing somthing. I could help with 
little PHP coding.

Jakob