Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:49:42 +1000 From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@room52.net> To: Mike Makonnen <mtm@wubethiopia.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Application layer classifier for ipfw Message-ID: <489198C6.9060409@room52.net> In-Reply-To: <48918DB5.7020201@wubethiopia.com> References: <48918DB5.7020201@wubethiopia.com>
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Hi Mike, Mike Makonnen wrote: [snip] > sharing applications which were hogging all the bandwidth. I looked for > programs that would allow me to shape traffic according to the > application layer protocol, but couldn't find any for FreeBSD. I found a > couple: l7-filter and ipp2p, but these are Linux specific. So, I decided > to write one. The result is ipfw-classifyd : > http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/ipfw-classifyd.tar.bz2 [snip] Unfortunately, I suspect you should have looked a bit harder: Bro (http://www.bro-ids.org/) or Snort (http://www.snort.org/), both of which are in the FreeBSD ports tree, would have saved you from reinventing the wheel. Cheers, Lawrence
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