'ipfw' IOCTLS available as python module?

[Bill Anderson]

Jeff wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:56:26AM -0400, François Pinard wrote:
> > I would like to seek some generality in my things, but I hardly see how.
> > Things are so tuned to of our particular setup, that it seems to me that
> > making things general enough to be exportable, sharable or publishable
> > would require an effort which is inordinate with our real needs.  Moreover,
> > to be fully honest, playing such games is far from being my preferred bag,
> > anyway.  I still hardly accept that there are bad guys on this planet:
> > this is really not the world I was hoping for in my youth :-).  Life would
> > be *so* easier without them.  Good guys should kill all the bad guys! :-)
> >
> 
> "good will always triumph over evil, because evil is dumb" -- spaceballs.
> that's a perfect world, though, so it's best to shoot for keeping the honest
> people honest ;).. as for generality, I have some of that, but it's an
> interface to 'os.system' not direct calls into the kernel. if anything it
> keeps the code cleaner because it will be less likely to change across
> kernel versions.


On that note, it is worth making the comment that ipchains is gone in
2.3.x, and hence 2.4.

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