Subject: Re: divert socket?
To: luke <luke@cis.nctu.edu.tw>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/24/2001 13:56:40
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, luke wrote:
>     Does NetBSD has mechanism similar to divert socket in FreeBSD or
> iptables QUEUE target in Linux?
> I want to convey some packets from kernel to user space applicatoin which is
> an intrusion detection system(IDS).
> If IDS finds malicious packets, it will drop them, otherwise, it will pass
> them to kernel again.

I don't know about divert sockets, but I see two alternatives:
1) the standard bpf interface  as used e.g. by IDS systems like
   snort (it's in pkgsrc)
2) the tun(4) tunnel device


 - Hubert

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