From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastien Tricaud Subject: Re: Userland Netfilter Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:47:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1225385229.5690.33.camel@roken.inl.fr> References: <4909d7a5.0fba720a.690e.70fc@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4909d7a5.0fba720a.690e.70fc@mx.google.com> Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Gilad Benjamini Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org 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.