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22-Aug-2010 |
rmind |
Import NPF - a packet filter. Some features:
- Designed to be fully MP-safe and highly efficient.
- Tables/IP sets (hash or red-black tree) for high performance lookups.
- Stateful filtering and Network Address Port Translation (NAPT). Framework for application level gateways (ALGs).
- Packet inspection engine called n-code processor - inspired by BPF - supporting generic RISC-like and specific CISC-like instructions for common patterns (e.g. IPv4 address matching). See npf_ncode(9) manual.
- Convenient userland utility npfctl(8) with npf.conf(8).
NOTE: This is not yet a fully capable alternative to PF or IPFilter. Further work (support for binat/rdr, return-rst/return-icmp, common ALGs, state saving/restoring, logging, etc) is in progress.
Thanks a lot to Matt Thomas for various useful comments and code review. Aye by: board@
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