Subject: Re: SynFlood mitigation tool on linux
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:32:33 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <FLydnRH2tbvczB7anZ2dnUVZ_j-dnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
<dan@telent.net> wrote:
+---------------
| Barry Margolin wrote:
| > You're planning on using Lisp inside the Linux kernel?
| > Good luck with that!
| 
| The alternative would be the TUN/TAP devices (unless they were 
| deprecated in favour of something else since I last looked) which can be 
| used to send network packets to userland applications.
| 
| (The networking equivalent of ptys, if you like)
| 
| Have a look at http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/misc/repo/slitch/ for a 
| Lisp app that uses them.
+---------------

Ouch! That web server is set up to suppress "README" files in directory
listings, so to figure out what this site is all about one needs to
manually view <http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/misc/repo/slitch/README>.

That done, however, it looks pretty fun!  ;-}


-Rob

p.s. While the above uses the Linux TUN/TAP, it looks like it should
be pretty easy to get it to work on FreeBSD's "tun" device, too.

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