Firewall without network Stack

From: Kyle Wheeler (memoryhole@cheerful.com)
Date: 09/29/01 

Message-Id: <200109290053.f8T0rGOh350225@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:53:16 -0400
From: Kyle Wheeler <memoryhole@cheerful.com>
To: Focus on Linux Mailing List <FOCUS-LINUX@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Subject: Firewall without network Stack

I've seen, somewhere, a project that was making a "shadow firewall" - a
Linux box that just dumped everything from the network card to a
user-land application (the kernel didn't have a network stack compiled)
and let that handle filtering and routing packets. I'm trying to find it
again...

Has anyone seen anything like this?

If not... any suggestions for places to look to begin hacking the kernel
to make my own?

~Kyle Wheeler 

--
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember what you said.
-- Mark Twain

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