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Any plans on switching to pf for the default firewall software? -Ron On 2/22/05 3:16 PM, "Manuel Kasper" <mk at neon1 dot net> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've finally found the time to make a new m0n0wall beta release: > 1.2b5! I'm sorry that it took so long. > > Before anyone asks: 1.2b4 has been skipped since I made a non-public > release with that version number and don't want to cause further > confusion. > > I'm happy to report that m0n0wall 1.2b5 is the first release to be > based on FreeBSD 5.3, rather than the old (and stable) 4.x series. So > far, the transition has gone much better than I expected, and even > though a lot of little nasty issues have shown up again (things like > the dreaded ipf/ipfw processing order issue [fixed]) or are yet to > show up, I'm confident that FreeBSD 5.3 provides a good base > operating system for m0n0wall in the future. Each and every binary > has been recompiled and all patches (kernel, userland and 3rd party > programs) have been carefully reviewed and either thrown out (as was > - luckily - the case for some kernel patches) or modified to make > them work with 5.3. > > FreeBSD 5.3 finally gives us, among other things, support for > Atheros-based 11a/b/g wireless cards. I've made the necessary > adjustments to the webGUI and conducted a few basic tests. > > I still have several contributed patches lying around, waiting to be > integrated. Also, Fred Wright's ipfilter window scaling and IPsec new > SA preferral patches aren't in this release yet because they may need > changes for 5.3 (especially the IPsec one). Furthermore, the OpenVPN > support in this release may be broken, but it'll be replaced by a > reworked version (that doesn't clobber the optional interfaces > configuration anymore) as soon as Peter Curran gives me the go-ahead. > All of these things will probably happen in the next release - for > now, I wanted to focus on moving to 5.3. > > Note that 32 MBs of RAM are now definitely no longer enough to run > 1.2b5 (it's been marginal even with earlier versions). Also, 1.2b5 is > definitely *NOT* for use in production environments (unless you call > your home network a production environment too ;). I've tested each > image on the corresponding platform to make sure that it at least > boots, but that's about it. You've been warned. > > Last but not least, make sure that your browser isn't using an old > version of the webGUI CSS (clear the cache if needed), as there have > been some changes (most notably on the firewall rule page). > > Please see the m0n0wall home page for the detailed change log and the > downloads: > > http://m0n0.ch/wall/beta.php > > Enjoy! > > - Manuel > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Ron Rosson ron at oneinsane dot net http://www.oneinsane.net |