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Subject: Re: Application layer classifier for ipfw
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You will go to develop a version to work with PF ?

Mike Makonnen escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> An Internet Cafe I do some work for was recently having problems with 
> very slow internet access. It turns out customers were running P2P 
> file sharing applications which were hogging all the bandwidth. I 
> looked for  programs that would allow me to shape traffic according to 
> the application layer protocol, but couldn't find any for FreeBSD. I 
> found a couple: l7-filter and ipp2p, but these are Linux specific. So, 
> I decided to write one. The result is ipfw-classifyd :
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/ipfw-classifyd.tar.bz2
>
> As the name implies it uses ipfw(4) to implement a userland daemon 
> that classifies TCP and UDP packets according to regular expression 
> patterns for various protocols. It's intended to be used with 
> divert(4) sockets and dummynet(4) so you can do traffic shaping 
> depending on the application level protocol. The protocol patterns are 
> from the l7-filter project.
>
> Basically, you use ipfw(8) to divert tcp/udp packets to the damon. It 
> reads its configuration file for a list of protocols and ipfw(8) 
> rules. Then, when it detects a matching session it re-injects the 
> packet back at the specified rule number. The tarball has a sample 
> configuration file and firewall script to get you started.
>
> While I have not done extensive testing, preliminary tests are 
> encouraging and it seems to work, so I thought I'd announce it to the 
> rest of the world in case anyone else is interested in this kind of 
> application.
>
> Comments and suggestions highly appreciated.
>
> Cheers.