iptables

[Rocco Stanzione]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 5:11 am, Laurence J. Lane wrote:
> I don't really follow this list, but Rocco Stanzione pointed me to this
> thread. Matt Zimmerman's CC must have been lost in the mail.
>
> Unfortunately, Rocco has made a number of misleading and specious
> claims regarding iptables on the list and in e-mail. Most are based on
> the fact that Ubuntu's iptables package is out of sync with Debian's.
> He clearly didn't research that.
>
> There's probably a lot I could discuss about the packages I have made
> and the perceived shortcomings, but it has proven pointless to discuss
> things with people with other agendas. Rocco wants to create a new
> iptables package for Ubuntu and he has my blessing. Not that my
> blessing is worth anything.

I feel compelled to clarify a few things.  My agenda, such as it is, is to 
modernize Ubuntu's iptables package.  This could clearly be done by resyncing 
with Debian, which hasn't been done in some time.  It could also be done by 
starting from scratch with a much simpler package and new upstream source.  
That approach would give us more features than we have now, and fewer 
features than the Debian package.

In my personal correspondences with Laurence, there seem to have been some 
misunderstandings about the package I was referring to (Ubuntu's vs. 
Debian's).  If he hasn't been permanently put off by that, or by my perceived 
agenda, I'm still pretty interested in this discussion with him and the 
Ubuntu community.

Thanks,

Rocco