----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Tim Williams wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Tom Anderson wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Tim Williams wrote: > > > > > > > Does anyone know of (personal/desktop) firewall that can be > > > > controlled via Python > > > > > > http://wipfw.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Tom, many thanks for that. I'm actually looking for a firewall (packet > > filter) I can control in realtime from a Python application, > > I think you should be able to do that with wipfw ... > > > or even a Win32 equivalent of http://woozle.org/~neale/src/ipqueue/ . > > .... but i'm not sure about that! However, i'm not any sort of firewall or > network expert, so it's possible that ipfw has some way to call out to > external code to get decisions made (a sort of packet version of > procmail's filter system) and that i don't know about it. > > > Though if I can stop & restart ipfw in a fraction of a second from > > within a Python app then the result would be the same I guess. I will > > have a play with it. > > AIUI, you won't be stopping and restarting ipfw - the ipfw command just > modifies the ruleset being used by a continuously-running instance of the > ipfw kernel module or daemon or whatever. How long it takes from starting > the os.system call to the changes taking effect in the firewall, though, i > have no idea - it might not be fast enough for you. I'd be surprised if it > was more than a few hundred milliseconds, though, and really ought to be > much, much faster than that. Thanks Tom Again, I will give it a go and post back with my findings -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
