Re: Fw: Netfilter for Windows

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Ondrej Slanina wrote:
> I just created a basic 'port' of Linux netfilter core modules on MS
> Windows. Now, it's implemented as a single kernel module (IM driver) and
> userspace library which has the same API as libnetfilter_queue. Network
> filtering is now performed only on pre_input and post_output sides.
> Kernel module now includes packet queueing, processing, not as on Linux,
> where this tasks is processed by separate modules. It will be
> distributed under GPL. I have some questions:

Cool. Finally those poor souls can use a proper firewall :)

> 1, Can I use 'netfilter' and 'libnetfilter_queue' names for this? For
> example kernel module named netfilter.sys, userspace library named
> libnetfilter_queue.lib, project name netfilter, netfilter for windows or
> something like it?

I think using the same names is fine.

> 2, Should I put some notice about origin into source code files ?
> Something like: "Based on Linux netfilter/libnetfilter_queue"  ?
Just keeping the original copyright and GPL headers is fine.

> My implementation is now very primitive, but I want to extend it in the future. 

Please keep us posted. I guess we could also host the source on
one of the netfilter servers in case you're interested.