R: Packet scans, viruses, etc. -j QUEUE userland code wanted.

Radel netfilter@radel.yi.org
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:03:30 +0200


I think snort is very different from inspect email in a firewall. A firewall
can see packets, not level7 layer objects:looking for viruses in an incoming
email sounds like looking for unpayed bills while filtering a database being
sent over the net!

Radel

----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Elías Robles <d.robles@codetel.net.do>
To: Netfilter <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: RV: Packet scans, viruses, etc. -j QUEUE userland code wanted.


> I understand snort does something like that
>
> www.snort.org
>
> Elías
>