Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/40396: New port: Logging daemon for Linksys BEFSR11/41/81 Routers Message-ID: <200302202030.h1KKU3Od014971@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/40396; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <dowen@nexusxi.com> Cc: <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ports/40396: New port: Logging daemon for Linksys BEFSR11/41/81 Routers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:25:53 -0800 >How long does it generally take to get a port added to FreeBSD Hi Dalin, I'm looking forward to trying this one out, we have a number of customers that use these devices. I don't know why it's taking so long to get it added, it looks like you followed the steps here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html Just one suggestion, one of the reasons that this port might be taking so long is that there's no indication in the description of exactly why this program is even needed. It's possible that the committer that looked at this didn't understand that the Linksys routers send their logging to the snmp trap port, not the syslog port, and thus a program like this is required. It also would be a good idea for you to mention in the documentation for this program that use of an access list with ipfw is mandatory if the loghost is exposed to the Internet, in order to prevent a malicious attacker from using this to fill up all free space on your disk drive. A typical ipfw entry would be along the lines of: . . ipfw add 5000 permit ip from 192.168.1.1 to any ipfw add 5001 deny udp from any to any 162 . . where 192.168.1.1 is the Linksys. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports-bugs" in the body of the message
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