Re: [Firestarter-user] Query about firestarter and IPV6

[David C. <web...@au...>]

Here Bret this is off Ubuntu forums saying don't use it as its dead - unmaintained.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1416373.html



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On 29/02/2012, at 15:17, Bret Busby <bre...@gm...> wrote:

> On 29/02/2012, web...@au... <web...@au...> wrote:
>> Bret,
>> 
>> Firestarter has been abandoned for ages.
> 
> If that is the case, then it is quite unfortunate.
> 
> Due to a number of reasons, when I lost my firewall/gateway server
> that had been running Smoothwall Express, early last year, as I had
> posted on this list, I went through a bit of trouble, and, with
> assistance, managed to get firestarter up and running at about the
> start of April last year, and have been running it since.
> 
> If what you have said is correct, that means, with all of the other
> difficulties in life, I now have to start again from scratch, and
> install and set up and try to get working, another firewall/gateway
> system.
> 
> Just when we start to think that we have a chance to get out of the
> mire, something else drags us back down.
> 
> Several years ago, before I started using Smoothwall Express, I had
> been using an iptables script that had been set up by a local Linux
> User, but it was complicated and I could not update or maintain the
> script, due to its complexity. Then, along came Smoothwall Express,
> which seemed okay to install and set up, but (it was, I think,
> Smoothwall Express 2) I could never figure out how to update it. When
> my firewall/gateway computer that I had been using, failed, I could
> not get Smoothwall Express 3 working, and found a lack of support. So,
> I searched and found firestarter.
> 
> With (I believe) much assistance from Mark Wise, who I assumed to have
> been the developer, or, if not, a very helpful and knowledgeable
> person regarding firestarter, I got the firestarter computer up and
> running, and it has been working away, for the last (almost) year,
> since the start of April last year.
> 
> If firewall has indeed been abandoned, then, I think, it is definitely
> a "Woe is me" situation.
> 
> I have just searcher for, and, found, the web site at
> http://www.fs-security.com/ , which apparently shows the developer of
> firestarter to be Tomas Junnonen
> ("Firestarter and all the contents on this page are © 2000-2007 Tomas
> Junnonen.").
> 
> That web page, being the home page for the firestarter web site, does
> not include mention of Firestarter having been abandoned.
> 
> The web page at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestarter_(firewall)
> shows the status of Firestarter to be discontinued, so I will
> investigate this further.
> 
> So, I have now sent an email message to Tomas Junnonen, asking for
> clarification of the status of Firestarter.
> 
> -- 
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
> 
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