Re: [RFC] vtunerc: virtual DVB device - is it ok to NACK driverbecause of worrying about possible misusage?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 05:30:34 EST


> I don't know enough about kernel modules doing networking, but do the
> packets go through the iptables route, and do things like DSCP still get
> taken note of?

If you go via the kernel tcp/ip stack then you'll get kernel iptables
rules, but you'd probably still want to add more security in many
environments, which means SSL which means user space and you are back to
not needing vtuner again.

Alan
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