Issue with running on CentOS 7
rzeznikj opened this issue · 2 comments
The software compiles quite nicely on CentOS 7 x64, and when I began to try npfctl, it complained that it was missing /dev/npf. As I've been a fan of PF for a while (and just trying out NPF on NetBSD), I thought I'd give it a shot to see if these powerful firewalls can run on Linux as well.
What I'm wondering is if there's a way to safely make the proper device nodes that NPF needs on CentOS; I've tried using the mknod command to manually make a node, but it seems that npfctl doesn't pick up on it.
Is there any information for this issue?
Distro: Debian9
Thanks.
NPF in this repository is provided as a userspace library to be used in a bespoke application to process packets. Typically, in combination with such frameworks like Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) or netmap. So, while it can run in userspace on Linux, there are currently no plans to port it to the Linux kernel.
I've updated the README/documentation to reflect this better. In the future, I might add more packages/components to run Linux + DPKG + NPF in certain modes (e.g. as a userspace router + firewall).