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Chris, I just tried again (9:45pm cst) and the site is working now. Guess it finally got around to my neck of the woods. Project looks great! Tom Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Buechler" <cbuechler at gmail dot com> To: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] installing monowall on full freebsd distro > Site is working fine, not sure why the one poster couldn't get there. > it is a brand new domain, so it's possible that DNS hasn't propagated > worldwide yet. > > This is nowhere near ready for public posting yet (hence the private email > reply that someone felt the need to blast to the whole mailing list), > as it's just a private beta at this point. This isn't even close to > being ready for this crowd. > > But now that it's hit the list I feel the need to comment. The > project is only a week > old, but Scott has it rolling on FBSD 5.3 with pf. The feature I'm > most excited about is pf's altq traffic shaping. It absolutely kills > dummynet (what m0n0wall uses) in terms of capabilities and > functionality and ease of use. (and Manuel will be able to easily > port our work on pf when > m0n0wall gets to 5.3 if he so desires, all code in public CVS here > http://pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/) > > There are plenty who will say "X doesn't belong on a firewall" where X > is any pkg m0n0 doesn't have (maybe even some it does...), and for > most of those things I agree completely. Like I would never in a > million years run a public web > server on a firewall under any circumstance, and we won't support > anything that risky. > > **This thread dies here.** our points will be made on our website > when we get it all together. > > To avoid any confusion, my #1 priority outside of my real job is still > working on m0n0wall documentation, and the screens in pfSense will > keep the identical layout (except for differing features) because I'll > be doing the documentation for both projects. I'll commit to > m0n0wall's CVS repo first, and port changes over where appropriate. > > -Chris > > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 03:43:35 +0800, Spam Safe <spamsafe at gmail dot com> wrote: >> that is a great project! >> m0n0wall is a great firewall but, its much better >> if we could add http servers, proxy servers, etc.. >> to make use of the extra power for FULL pc installation. >> >> looking forward to that:) >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:12:12 -0500, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> >> wrote: >> > might want to check out pfSense (www.pfsense.com). It's a fork of >> > m0n0wall that a friend and I are working on, and it's targetted >> > towards full PC's rather than embedded devices like m0n0wall is. >> > >> > This project is only like a week old, so it's still a work in >> > progress. But we do have m0n0wall working on FreeBSD 5.3 with >> > OpenBSD's pf rather than ipfilter. >> > >> > Once we get the base solid, we're going to add a packaging system with >> > things like a proxy server and other misc stuff to take advantage the >> > currently unused power of the full PC platform. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 03:40:59 +0800, Spam Safe <spamsafe at gmail dot com> >> > wrote: >> > > hmm... >> > > im just wondering if i could make use of the spare power of my pc.. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 04:18:03 -0500, Chris Buechler >> > > <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote: >> > > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 17:00:31 +0800, Spam Safe <spamsafe at gmail dot com> >> > > > wrote: >> > > > > hi, >> > > > > >> > > > > is it possible to install m0n0wall on a fully installed >> > > > > freebsd machine? >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > Short answer - no. >> > > > >> > > > Long answer, probably. But, no offense, If you have to ask the >> > > > question, the answer is you can't figure it out. You'd have to >> > > > patch >> > > > your kernel sources, build your kernel with the appropropriate >> > > > options, install the appropriate packages, build and patch the >> > > > stuff >> > > > from source that's not stock, change your init to load >> > > > configuration >> > > > from config.xml, and some other fun stuff. >> > > > >> > > > -Chris >> > > > >> > > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >> For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > |