Re: [bwm-tools-tech] About packaging and the vitality of the project
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From: Nigel K. <nk...@lb...> - 2007-07-22 16:29:57
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Hi, > I've been using bwm-tools (just for bandwidth) for over two years, on a= > very very low end system. VoIP and wireless are being routed by it and= > it simply works, and it works great! I love it. > =20 Very glad you like it!! > I'd like to package it for Debian, but I wonder if the project is alive= =2E > There aren't many releases (maybe there's no need to) and it's a supris= e=20 > for me that not many people know about it. > =20 The project is slowly gaining momentum, we kinda lost one of our major sponsors, so its not progressing very fast on the code development side. The good thing is we've had some nice donations over the past few weeks which have sparked some more research and development. We're looking at adding tun/tap support as an option to netfilter's -j QUEUE. This would mean bwmtools may even beable to run under any OS that supports tun/tap. I've seen a tun/tap driver for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD & Windows, so I would think that would slingshot bwmtools quite a bit forward. > So, what do you think, should I go ahead and package it? Go for it. > If people=20 > start reporting bugs or trying to send patches, will there be somebody > on your side able to deal with that? > =20 Always :o) Kind Regards Nigel |