[Sofi-firewall-devel] Fwd: Re: SOFI related

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Subject: Re: SOFI related
Date: Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:55 pm
From: Mark Heily <ma...@he...>
To: JimAdams@...

Well Jim..

  Thanks to your informative inquiry, I did some digging and found a
half-finished SOFI release that represented my first efforts to port SOFI to
OpenBSD 3.3. I spent the past week polishing it up and have come up with a
new release, SOFI 0.7, that works with OpenBSD 3.3.

The biggest thing you could do to help would be to test it out and report
 back any problems or questions. I would appreciate this very much, since I
 have no way to independently verify that the code works in all situations.

Thanks,

   - Mark

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 01:44 am, you wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Wow!  It sounds like you've been hard at work.  Is there anything
> specific I could do to help?
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 11:17, Mark Heily wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 03:33 am, you wrote:
> > > Hello Mark,
> > >
> > > I've been searching high and low for something that would let me manage
> > > an openbsd box with pf over http.  Your project seems to do just that.
> > > I agree completely that firewall/gateway-on-a-floppy distro's are very
> > > restrictive and would love to have an openbsd box that is easy to
> > > manage acting as my cable/dsl router.
> > >
> > > It seems that the project hasn't been touched in a few months.  I'd
> > > like to use it with OpenBSD 3.3 but the installer wants 3.2.  Is there
> > > an easy fix to make it work on 3.3, or is it going to take some work?
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jim Adams
> >
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > SOFI has undergone a total rewrite since the last version, which has
> > delayed the release of a OpenBSD 3.3-compatible version. The version I am
> > working on now is compatible with 3.3, and has been ported to Linux, with
> > experimental support for FreeBSD and NetBSD. The new version uses most of
> > the code from the old version, with a new portability framework, new UI
> > framework, and is totally object-oriented; it represents a very solid
> > basis for future work on web administration tools.
> >
> > I estimate the next release will come out in 3 weeks.
> >
> > If you are interested in beta-testing the new SOFI, please sign up as a
> > SourceForge user and subscribe to the 'release announcement' system. This
> > will send you an e-mail when the next version is released. The URI is:
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/project/filemodule_monitor.php?filemodule_id=7138
> >6
> >
> > Thanks for expressing interest in SOFI, and I hope it will fulfil your
> > expectations.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark