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From: Brent Clark <brentgclarklist@gmail.com>
To: 'Mail List - Netfilter' <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: moblock
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:54:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DBA637.3020001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DB9C84.4050405@riverviewtech.net>

Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 09/25/08 06:18, Brent Clark wrote:
>
> It looks like the filtering is done in user space rather than by 
> IPTables.  I don't know what to think about this.  I personally would 
> be more interested in this if it ran in kernel space and you provided 
> it the list of blocked sites via /proc or sysctl or the likes.  But, 
> if it works, more power to it.
But what I have to do is that  I keep having to remind myself is that 
iptables is for layer 3 /4 operation. But then what does layer 7 control?

Well it seems to be the way to go, look at other tools like snort 
inline. And also whats interesting is that I see some of the BSD lot use 
/ recommend this type of filtering (snort2pf).



  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-25 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-25 11:18 moblock Brent Clark
2008-09-25 14:13 ` moblock Grant Taylor
2008-09-25 14:54   ` Brent Clark [this message]
2008-09-25 16:36     ` moblock Grant Taylor

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