Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Slirp reverse UDP firewall

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 04/12/2011 07:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-04-12 18:19, Daisuke Nojiri wrote:
> >  This patch adds: -drop-udp, -allow-udp ADDR:PORT, -drop-log FILE
> >
> >    e.g.) $ qemu -net user -drop-log qemu.drop -drop-udp -allow-udp
> >  10.0.2.3:53
>
> No more stand-alone slirp arguments please. That syntax breaks when
> instantiating>1 back-ends.
>
> >
> >  -drop-udp enables usermode firewall for out-going UDP packats from a guest.
> >  All UDP packets except ones allowed by -allow-udp will be dropped. Dropped
> >  packets are logged in the file specified by FILE. PORT can be a single
> >  number
> >  (e.g. 53) or a range (e.g. [80-81]). If ADDR is ommitted, all addresses
> >  match
> >  the rule.
>
> Will we see a TCP firewall as well? Can we prepare for a more generic
> infrastructure, or what makes UDP special?

If some generic firewall like BPF is available as a user library, 
perhaps we can integrate one instead of writing a new one from scratch.

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