On Thursday 19 February 2004 11:10 am, Sood, Ashish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to extend the netfilter to user mode.
Why? Surely a usermode version would be (a) less efficient, with all the
context switching involved, and (b) less secure, because the code is out in
userland instead of protected inside kernelspace?
Efficiency and security seem both desirable qualities for a firewall.
Regards,
Antony.
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