[OFFTOPIC]l7-filter like tool for *BSD

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Mon Nov 6 14:37:26 PST 2006


On Mon, November 6, 2006 1:07 pm, Gergo Szakal wrote:
> http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/
>
> This thingy is for netfilter and it's an app layer packet classifier.
> Does anyone know of such a tool for *BSD?

It'd probably be associated with the various firewalls.  Looking for
something like this with pf would probably be your best bet, I think.

Layer 7 equipment is resource intensive, so it's a lot easier to find as
hardware than software, especially if you want to process any sizable
amount of bandwidth, in my experience.






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