userfw - modular packet filter

[Sami Halabi]

Hi Maxim,
what are the other advantages on ipfw/pf ? like did you make speed
measures? does packet leave the firewall faster?

Sami

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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Sami Halabi
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