wow crickets so does this mean no one wants my help on this lol On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello every one > > I am new to the list but I have been working professionally building > custom mission critical HA netfilters based firewalls on and off for > approximately a decade (I remember the days when conntrak tools was > more of a proof of concept alpha which took a number of kernel patches > via patch-o-matic and some which were not in patch-o-matic yet). > > I have noticed three things in the TODO for conntrak tools 1.4.2 which > I believe I could be extremely helpful with. > > [ ] improve shell scripts for keepalived/heartbeat: *really* important > [ ] add scripts to use the floating priority feature in keepalived to avoid > premature take over. > [ ] study better keepalived transitions > > > I have been extremely active on the keepalived list for a few years > and have helped many people with best practices with their > configurations and scripts. > I am also painfully well aware that most of the howto documents for > keepalived are nearly a decade out of date. The only really good > documentation for keepalived is here > https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/blob/master/doc/keepalived.conf.SYNOPSIS > but many of the users do not know that. > > My employer has mandated that any non industry specific scripts to > manage open source tools should be submitted either upstream or posted > on a community site under the GPL as part of the peer review process. > > > I was just about to post my scripts and guidelines and example > configurations on github but now seeing this in the TODO I think I may > be able to help and full fill my employers excellent mandate. > if some one can please point me to a couple of things. > > 1) Any detailed documents or discussions on what you are exactly > looking for the scripts to do. > > 2) most of my current scripts are in bash but many of them I intend to > rewrite or supplement some of them with Perl in the near future; > because I would like to add some more intelligence to them than can > easily be achieved in a shell script? > Would that be a problem or would you like the scripts to deal only > with making them work with just bash? > One example of where I would like some logic added from Perl is I > would like to read the configuration and do things like skip the cache > sync step if you are using "DisableExternalCache On' in FTFW mode. > > 3) I can look this up my self but If any one can send me links to the > patch submission procedures and any code style guidelines for the > project it would be very helpful. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
