Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Blocking Firewall

[Willy Tarreau]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:40:31PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2009, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > why didn't you use ipset for that ? It's designed exactly for this usage
> > and is a lot easier to use than plain iptables for dynamic filtering.
> 
> Any ideas when it will hit mainline?

no idea.

> ipsets and PF_RING are the only ways
> to get two important jobs done:  non-trivial firewalling on high-speed
> links, and packet capture in said links...

yes, that's a bit right.

>  and neither is in mainline AFAIK.

Well, you should ask Joszef for the former and Luca for the later :-)

Regards,
Willy

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