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Hi Peter, > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Curran [mailto:peter at closeconsultants dot com] > Sent: Sunday, 4 July 2004 09:35 > To: Quark IT - Hilton Travis > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] m0n0-ovpn ver 0.1 > > On Saturday 03 July 2004 21:10, Quark IT - Hilton Travis wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > Shouldn't a module just be able to be uploaded to a running > > m0n0wall system in a similar way to a new firmware? Making > > a module that needs to have the original image edited and > > the "module" code included is more like hacking the base > > than adding a module to me. > > > > Well of course you can upload it to a running system!!! Just > that most people don't really want to do that every time it boots. That's what a module system is to me - a system that lets you load a module onto the working system, and have it there when you reboot. If that's not how the m0n0wall module system works, then methinks it needs a bit more work. > Unless you know some clever way of inserting the goodies into > the mfsroot.gz sitting on the CF (that isn't going to destroy > your system if it goes wrong)? I'd have thought that the module system had a way to load a module into the working m0n0wall install on a permanent basis - preferable with a "module removal" option as well - so a module being tested/evaluated can be removed/updated as needed. > > I'm off for a week of babysitting my sister's kids (school > > holidays) so I'll be pretty much unable to test anything. > > And as I have a net4501 and no other FreeBSD system, it > > looks like your module cannot be uploaded to the net4501 > > to test anyway - I don't want to hack a working m0n0wall > > base to add a module. > > > > If you want to upload and test, then it is dead easy - there > are only 5 or 6 files. Perhaps I should write a little > script so that you could just upload a tar file and have it > unpacked into the right place. I will think about it > overnight, but it still doesn't help you with a permament > change. It would make it easier for people to evaluate and test your module, that's for sure. As I mentioned, I'd have thunk that the module framework would take care of loading and unloading modules from the base system, not have them disappear upon a reboot. > > Good luck - I hope this works out for you and those looking > > at OpenVPN. > > > > Thanks for the feedback. > > Peter NP - without it, where would we all be? -- Regards, Hilton Travis Phone: +61 (0)7 3343 3889 (Brisbane, Australia) Phone: +61 (0)419 792 394 Manager, Quark IT http://www.quarkit.com.au Quark AudioVisual http://www.quarkav.net http://www.threatcode.com/ <-- its now time to shame poor coders into writing code that is acceptable for use on today's networks War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. |