Good day, Gianni,

On 29 May 2002, Gianni Tedesco wrote:

> Here is a new string match. New kernel code, and updated userspace code.
> 
> Changes:
> o no more dependance on max() macro! (so works for 2.4.9 now)
> o skip/shift tables are now stored in matchinfo, making for tidier code
> and removing the need to generate skip/shift tables all the time.
> o due to above change it should now be AT LEAST 100 times faster
> o memcmp() matching removed alltogether
> o fix iptables-save quotation bug

        I really appreciate your ongoing work with the module.

> I am now working on a patch to the userspace libraries to allow
> snort-style binary data to be in the string eg:
> 
> --string "|ef ff ff ff|/bin/sh"
> 
> I have been testing this code extensively  both in userspace and inside
> netfilter for a while now so it should be stable as a table.

        May I say, in advance,

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        My project to convert snort rules over to iptables rules (
http://www.stearns.org/snort2iptables/ ) will be a _lot_ simpler and more
complete with that addition to user space.
        I _really_ look forward to seeing that userspace addition.  You 
may have sensed that from the above.  ;-)
        Cheers,
        - Bill

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