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From: Allen Francom <aef@tempest.prismnet.com>
Subject: Re: Netfilter as an application
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:06:03 -0600 (CST)
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Um...

One way or another I think the "user" will at least
have to have "root" privileges.

Netfilter I don't think will do what you want, I think
it is totally dependent on the kernel.

You might look at Snort.  www.snort.org

-AEF

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, kernel_learner wrote:
>  How's it going! I am looking for something that I am
> not sure currently exists. Basically I want to make a
> version of netfilter that's free from all the
> kernel-level and networking stack hooks. I am looking
> for a plain simpler version of netfilter which does
> not interact with the kernel or the networking stack
> in any way. It would be a standard user program which
> a person with normal privelges could compile and run.