Re: [LARTC] Authetication on LAN

Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control

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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:13:03PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:41:15PM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > On 10 May 2001 18:24:18 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > > > I'm not aware of one, but it shouldn't be too hard to write a program
> > > > that would watch for outgoing connections via netlink (Linux) or some
> > > > such device and request ident information about that user before
> > > > deciding to allow or deny the request.
> > > > 
> > > > One might exist.
> > > 
> > > What level of programming would it require?  Perl, shell or C?
> > 
> > Perl or C depending on the speed of your connection and your CPU
> > horsepower (as every packet or packet header would be inspected).
> 
> Isn't there a way to only look at packets that would be blocked by the
> filters only?  This would alleviate much of the burden on the processor for
> even a C program.

I believe that you can use QUEUE target of netfilter to check packets in the
userland selectively.

Ramin



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