> 2) Is this even reasonable in python and how might I get started? (e.g. > win32 COM?)
Don't know much (not to say nothing) about windows firewalling & the interfaces one needs to talk to them. But _what_ I know is: a firewall needs to be fast. The big guys in networking put a lot of effort into pushing as much package processing as possible into the hardware-layer. And as much as I love python - I do not see it here, beyond a proof-of-concept. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list