* userspace packetfiltering problems
@ 2009-02-17 20:14 Ralf
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From: Ralf @ 2009-02-17 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netfilter-devel
The majority of the public linux servers are VPS systems.
Most are based on openVZ/Virtuozzo.
In this environment the VPS admin has IMHO unfortunately
no possibility to use modprobe or insmod to load iptable modules.
Therefore it is impossible to write 3rd party software
which needs packet filtering capability (QUEUE/NFQUEUE).
The iptables/netfilter developers should think about this problem
and give the VPS users the capability to load userspace modules
by themselves, and not let them beg at their hosters
as this mostly nearly never works.
Can anybody give me an advice for a packet filtering library
that works in userspace on all linux systems, without the need
for any kernel modules etc.?
I tried libipq, but it gives an error because a kernel module
(ip_queue) is not loaded, and the hoster denies to load that damn module.
Is that not worser than Microsoft's monopoly practices???
It is happening with Open Source! Isn't that a crime?
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