[cobalt-users] Qube2 Firewall

[Peter Low <peterlow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:26 AM 1/23/01 -0800, Will wrote:
>James Robertson wrote:
>>
>> At 01:26 23/01/2001, Peter Low wrote:
>>
>> >I've gone through quite a bit of reading trying to get the firewall
>> >working on my Qube2.  Has anyone had any success?  I'm not familiar with
>> >scripting IPFWADM with masquerading (I'm using both NAT and DHCP).  Can
>> >anyone help me out?  I can't figure out what is wrong with the Cobalt
>> >generated script.
>
>Since the subject says "Qube 3" I'd like to point out that all firewall
>code, along with most other service management code from the Qube 2 has
>been completely rewritten.  There are a couple benefits, the UI uses
>Sausalito, and the back-end makes good & much more bulletproof use of IP
>chains.
>
>> I am coming to suspect that the Qube2
>> firewall is simply a huge marketing lie.
>>
>> J
>
>I suspect the firewalling code was broken by one of the earlier Qube2
>patches since I did have it running via the UI when we shipped first
>product.
>
>Truly an embarrassing misimplementation...
>
>
>	-- Will

Embarrassing - yes.  But not as embarrassing as knowing that it does not 
work, and not having a fix available yet.

Will/can it be fixed?  When/How?
Will the Qube2s get an update to IP Chains?  How soon?

Thanks,

Peter