Julien Vehent on 23 Aug 2012 12:54:12 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Fosscon: Netfilter workshop slides


On 2012-08-23 14:02, Joshua Datko wrote:
Julien,

Interesting slides.  Does Netfilter offer, or allow via a module, any deep
packet inspection (of application layer streams)?


You can inspect the content of a packet using the string module (there's an example in the slides). But keep in mind that Netfilter is a packet filter, so you can only inspect 1500 bytes (or whatever your MTU size is) at a time. For long HTTP requests (for example), it means that you do not get the whole request at once.

- Julien
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