Need to limit turning on ip_forwarding...

[<jam...@te...>]

Hi Jamie,

I need to be able to limit who can turn on and off ip forwarding (Act as
router? question in
the routing and gateways sub module of the net module) while still allowing
them to
add static routes.  I thought it would be a trivial change but then I found
that the manual
polymorphism of your net-lib.pl library (-;

It looks like the routing_input() function is what is responsible for
painting the screen with
the form that:

     - shows all static routes.
     - allows the selection of "Act as router?"/ip_forwarding.

The problem is that this funciton lives in what looks like 14 different
libraries each representing
the way to do things on one specific platform.   So if I fix it in the
library redhat-linux-lib.pl, the fix still
needs to be propagated to 13 other platforms, most of which I cannot test.
That being said,
what I need to control really should operate from a forms perspective
exactly the same no
matter what platform I am on.   What it really looks like needs to be done
is to architect things
just a little different so that you have a seperate output routine that is
common to all platforms, and then
have each platform have instead a function that gathers the information
into a "standard" hash, and
pass that back to the format routine....sigh.

This appears to be the right thing to do, but runs the risk of even more
problems at first, and would
call for even better testing on the other platforms.  What do you think
Jamie.  I am willing to reconstruct
it as mentioned above, but is this a desirable thing for you and do you
have the systems and or
time to test it?  I could just make it work the way I want under redhat
linux but it seems to be a desirable
feature for others?  What seems amicable to you?

Cheers...james