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Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures



Samuel Thibault, le Sun 30 Jun 2013 11:38:33 +0200, a écrit :
> > lack of firewall support.
> 
> Now that we use a userland driver for networking, it should be easy to
> interpose at least a simple BPF filter, I have added the task here:
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?12723
> 
> debian-hurd, bug-hurd: anybody up for this? The "eth0" interface is
> quite simple, plugging BPF into it should be easy.

This was actually already done by Zheng Da some years ago in the
incubator, named under eth-filter.  It uses libpcap to parse input and
output rules into BPF filters. I have improved it and imported it into
the hurd package.

Samuel


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