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Re: [OFFTOPIC]l7-filter like tool for *BSD


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:56:28 +0000
Mail-followup-to: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 07:07:43PM +0100, 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?

Not any I am aware of. It should be that that layer 7 filtering is
generally extremely expensive and often quite unreliable. We
investigated it here for traffic shapping of 50Mbit/s and the
computation time needed was quite high.

Joerg



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