firewall with user interaction/netlink support

[Stefan Strasser]

I hope I'm posting this to the right newsgroup.

I wonder if there's any interest in implementing a kde application which 
uses the netfilter support for user interaction, a "personal firewall" 
for which you don't have to neccessarily set up rules but you are asked 
when an application is trying to access the net.
this especially enables you to allow access for one applcation(e.g. 
firefox) but disallow for another(e.g. a proprietary application trying 
to call home), which isn't that easy with normal netfilter rules(only 
way I can think of is introducing a unix group which is allowed to 
access the net. which causes problems for some applications).
have a look at sygate personal firewall for windows to see what I mean.

so, I don't have time to learn kde/qt gui programming but I could do the 
network/daemon stuff.
maybe it's best to add this feature to an existing firewall app like 
knetfilter so you can combine rules with user interaction.
(unfortunately I couldn't look at knetfilter since it claims my 
kernel(2.6.8) doesn't support netfilter but it does)

send me an email if you're interested in that kind of application, even 
if you don't have the time or knowledge to help implementing it.


-- 
Stefan Strasser


sorry if this has already been posted. the mailing list archive doesn't 
have a search function.
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