http://sourceforge.net/projects/l7-filter/ Providse and posibly replaces your project. Thay use regex(in kernel space) to filter packets in much the same way you do. How ever regex is not going into the kernel! Here is a mail that describes the situation. http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2004/02/msg00051.html Hopefully the l7 ppl will FINALY get a copy, now that I know thay didn't. I would hope that you would provide the l7 ppl with any paterns you may have and that you-all can work together to create the next generation of layer7 and/or p2p filtering software. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/