Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

[Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:53:28AM +1000, David Findlay wrote:

> In the 2.5 series of kernels, working towards 2.6, could you please make the 
> IP Accounting so that I can set a single rule that will make it watch all IP 
> traffic going from the local network, through the masquerading service to the 
> internet, and log local IP Addresses using it? This would allow me to set 1 
> rule, but have the information I want on a per IP address system.

:) Well... there was a discussion about this on the netfilter-devel
list some weeks ago. 

This is definitely not a 2.5 / 2.6 issue, as it could be easily implemented
by using the already existing flexibility of netfilter/iptables.

It's just a matter of somebody who needs it getting around actually 
implementing it. Could be either implemented as a 'raw' netfilter 
hook-attaching module or (more convenient) as a new iptables target, 
which allocates some internal tables for storing the accounting data.

Doesn't make sense to have a discussion about it on linux-kernel, and
it certainly doesn't belong into a 2.5 featurelist.

Please refer to the netfilter-devel mailinglist (subscription information
available at http://netfilter.samba.org/)

> David

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