Abstract: The use of packet filters has increased considerably due to the growth of Internet users and network services. A number of header fields must be examined by the filter, causing delay for ...

The original engine, async server, and base were initially created by Chernobyl but have been rewritten multiple times since then. I set out to create a packet filter with a clean and structured ...

Abstract: Packet filters are essential for most types of recent information network technologies. To achieve packet filters with high performance, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, the performance ...

Basically you tell it what packets to drop. In your rules you says something like "all packets from network 172.30.0.0 get dropped" and every time a packet comes in the kernel compares it to all the ...

I have been trying to implement a packet sniffer on QNX to read outgoing UDP packets for a software unit test. As far as I am aware, it isn't possible to create a raw socket and set it promiscuous ...

Learn how firewalls have progressed from simple packet filtering to more sophisticated application-level filtering. Webopedia.com defines a firewall as “a system designed to prevent unauthorized ...

Packet capture is a mechanism that copies packets received from thenetwork and pushes them into user space making the frame available toan application for further analysis. These applications can be ...

When deciding on a firewall implementation, most Unix-savvy administrators have usually chosen to use ipfilter on OpenBSD for their combination of capabilities and stability, as the capabilities of ...

Rust Packet Logger is a high-performance network packet sniffer built in Rust. It captures live traffic from any network interface, parses Ethernet, IPv4, TCP, and UDP headers, and outputs structured, ...