Subject: Re: firewall ruleset modification notify
To: Jachym Holecek <freza@psi.cz>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/09/2002 22:00:20
Jachym Holecek wrote:
> I was looking for a mechanism of notifying userland about a change of
> firewalling rules, for needs of hardware assisted packet filtering (see
> openrouter.net). As I didn't find anything in IPF man pages, and bearing in
> mind IP filtering is (in theory) not the only one out there, I was thinking
> about similar interface to the one provided by the PF_ROUTE socket, eg.
> something like PF_FILTER delivering firewall table changes upon read().
Or perhaps a new type of kevent?
Jaromir
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