Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [ACL][firewall] how to

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Mihai Bucicoiu wrote:
>
> > I was looking for something like iptables, I'll my own kernel module  
> > if it's necessary, but I know that netfilter has some user-space  
> > interface for this.

> 	1) you might not be applying the filter on the machine on which  
> you're running Wireshark (it supports generating filter rules for  
> Cisco IOS)

Actually it's capable to create expressions for Cisco IOS, ipfilter, ipfw, 
iptables, pf and netsh.

And then, you'll need to be root to change firewall rules, something we've been 
working so hard on to avoid.

Thanx,
Jaap