userfw - modular packet filter

Maxim Ignatenko gelraen.ua at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 11:20:56 UTC 2012


2012/2/13 Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru>:
> On 13.02.2012 14:31, Maxim Ignatenko wrote:
>> Dear -net,
>>
>> Today I want to present new packet filter for FreeBSD: userfw. It's
>> main design goal - to be easily extensible.
>> Source code is here: http://git.userfw.net/ https://github.com/gelraen/userfw/
>> Dedicated website: http://userfw.net/
>
> Hi, Maxim
>
> Why do you called it "userfw"? Does it work in user level? :)
>

Original idea was to write something like desktop firewalls found on
Windows™, it changed later, but name was left the same and I don't see
a reason to do s/userfw/some_other_name/ through all sources now.
Also, I still plan to implement such functionality as a module, but
not right now.


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