Re: Real Time Traffic Flow Measurement - anybody working on it?

[Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:15:56PM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote:
> Through the stimulating discussion we had under ``IP Acounting 
> Idea for 2.5'', it appears that a separate Traffic Flow Measure-
> ment and Accounting sub-system would be useful. See:
>         <http://logi.cc/linux/CounterReset/>

Hey cool. Now we've come to a point where we agree. If you want to do
serious accounting, iptables is not the subsystem of your choice.

As you've pointed out on your very enthusiastic homepage:

    * Mixing fundamentally different functionalities like security and
    * accounting in a firewall is not a good idea anyway. It leads to overly
    * complex firewall code (potentially thousands of rules just for
    * accounting) and unreliable accounting (f.e. when the firewall rules get
    * reloaded).


> I would also like to know if there are any objections to providing
> a RTFM interface in the kernel (as an optional module).

No, not at all. I'd like to help developing an RTFM meter for linux.
I guess we don't actually need to keep seperate flow information, but
could attach it to the netfilter connection tracking.

> Manfred Bartz

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