The new week starts promising. First of all I finally got my office. As space is scarce around here and we're growing exponentially every month I thought I'd never get one - but there must be benefits of being a Suit.

Darryll delivered the latest Beta-Code for the Firewall stuff tonight and I just had this fragged up idea of making the firewall processes Python scripteable. So I dug out Pythons pythonembed-docu and started playing. As a result the forwarding code is broken again but I can script logging and log actions in Python now as well as define non- static rules and failover with them.

Ran the same tests I ran last month again. PIX and Sonicwall again bet the living crap out of my code, even though I removed expensive logging for speeds sake. 120 Megs per second are the maximum the IDS can handle and the Firewall module starts dropping at 340M/s. I need to work on this, sigh.

Sleep is good now!