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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:25:53 -0800
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
Message-ID:  <000201c2d91e$441888a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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>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


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