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From: Sebastien Tricaud <stricaud@inl.fr>
To: Gilad Benjamini <gilad.benjamini@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userland Netfilter
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:47:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225385229.5690.33.camel@roken.inl.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4909d7a5.0fba720a.690e.70fc@mx.google.com>

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 08:49 -0700, Gilad Benjamini wrote:
> I need to create a userland simulation for filtering packets.
> I remember running into a userland netfilter, but can't seem to find it. Any
> pointers or info would be appreciated.
> Another option is to feed the packets into tun/tap devices, and let the real
> netfilter do the job. Performance, of course, is not a concern in my case.
> Does that sound reasonable ? Tun/tap seems to be an almost dead project.
> Will it work in newer distributions ?
> 

Hello Gilad,

I highly recommend you to use Pierre easy bindings, so that you can
write your simulation in either Perl or Python :

http://software.inl.fr/trac/wiki/nfqueue-bindings


Regards,
Sebastien Tricaud.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 15:49 Userland Netfilter Gilad Benjamini
2008-10-30 16:47 ` Sebastien Tricaud [this message]
2008-10-30 17:52   ` Julien Vehent

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