Python & firewall control (Win32)

[Tim Williams]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Anderson" <twic at urchin.earth.li>
>
> >
> > 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

re: http://wipfw.sourceforge.net/?page=home

Tom,  this looks good.   I had it downloaded, installed and running some
custom rules in under 5 minutes.  Very simple and straightforward.

> AIUI, you won't be stopping and restarting ipfw

This is correct,  the service doesn't appear to restart,    the rule updates
are actioned very quickly (instantaneous)

I haven't had chance to try it integrated into a Python app,  but it looks
very promising,.

Thanks again