Re: [bwm-tools-tech] FreeBSD and BWM_tools

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:36:07AM -0700, Jeffry Buehler wrote:
> I am having trouble compiling bwm-tools for FreeBSD (5.x) - this may not=
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> seem unusual, since it is evidently for Linux systems only ...?  Has=20

Hrmm... that is a very interesting prospoect, what sort of errors you
get when building on BSD?

> anhyone been able to port or get bwm-tools running on a FreeBSD system, a=
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> if so, any suggestions on getting started with that?  Netfilter seems to =
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Basically what bwm-tools needs is a way to stand between receive & send,
in the Linux case this is done by sending packets to userspace via
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be accepted or dropped.=20

> the firtst really significant problem I ran into (aside from general=20
> include/library probelsm, all of them easily resolved up to the Netfilter=
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> point).
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that would be the split in the road from FreeBSD & Linux, if you can
provide me with information on how the bsd firewalling system is used
and maybe ideas on how we can interface it with bwm-tools i'd be glad to
help in anyway i can.

> Thanks,
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> Jeff
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-Nigel Kukard