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From: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@eggo.org>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: "Joel Wirāmu Pauling" <joel@aenertia.net>,
	cerowrt-devel <cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] vpn fw question
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:12:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <542E221F.1010303@eggo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw6EMXGTDRH9qm9D47G9-opCFv=GTr4Wg6Jbnp5NMvFB1w@mail.gmail.com>


On 10/2/2014 11:38 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> Personally I find the output of
>
> ip route show
>
> to be much more readable and usable nowadays.

you are quite right. It is. thank you for the reminder to kill off old 
habits and build a new old habit.

 > Ideally you should be able to shrink that 10.43 network into a single 
10.43.0.0/20 route.

that is my plan when I replace the firewall in the main office. There is 
a lot of Cruft in the old firewall including multiple holes for things 
people "used to do" but they don't dare close them because they might 
have to do them again. I wish IP cop was sufficiently sophisticated for 
this purpose but I think the UI gotten rather crufty since I last worked 
on it.

You see, I work in the land of myth and magic. A little bit of Hollywood 
right here in Boston.

and WTH is this?
172.30.42.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   !         0 0          0 *

> That is what is called a "covering route". The interfaces in cerowrt are
> all /27s out of a single /24. Just as you could just do a 10.43.0.0/20 route
> instead of the 16 10.43 routes above.

I've got to learn Lua and how to debug in this environment better. I 
should probably explain. I was one of the founding members of the IPCop 
firewall. We put a lot of energy into making it simple and easy to use 
so that it was harder to make mistakes. I apologize in advance if I 
offend anyone but the current UI for Cerowrt/openwrt is not shaped by 
workflow but by the need to expose everything.

I'm hoping that I will be able to demonstrate what I mean by an error 
resistant UI sometime over the next few months. In the meantime however, 
I'm going to try and learn enough so I can be useful fixing small bugs 
and reducing chaos enhancers in tools like uci.

And I just saw your other mail about BCP 38. What is it?

--- eric



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-03  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03  1:32 Eric S. Johansson
2014-10-03  2:02 ` Dave Taht
2014-10-03  2:16   ` Eric S. Johansson
2014-10-03  2:21     ` Joel Wirāmu Pauling
2014-10-03  2:24 ` Joel Wirāmu Pauling
2014-10-03  2:33   ` Joel Wirāmu Pauling
2014-10-03  2:36   ` Dave Taht
2014-10-03  2:38     ` Joel Wirāmu Pauling
2014-10-03  2:41       ` Joel Wirāmu Pauling
2014-10-03  3:05   ` Eric S. Johansson
2014-10-03  3:38     ` Dave Taht
2014-10-03  4:09       ` Dave Taht
2014-10-03  4:12       ` Eric S. Johansson [this message]
2014-10-03  4:32         ` Dave Taht
2014-10-03  5:38           ` Eric S. Johansson

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