Re: ip_conntrack bigger, better and yellow ;) !!!

Sven Koch (haegar@sdinet.de)
Sun, 5 Aug 2001 05:19:55 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Mircea Ciocan wrote:

> Ok, the pressure for a netflow like stuff in kernel is big, examining
> the the netflow structure at:
>
> http://sgi.rdscv.ro/~ionuts/netflowv5.h
>
> it seem that ip_conntrak has allmost everything that is needed to
> emulate Cisco netflow EXCEPT ( a big except :) the information about
> data bytes/packets that flow via that connexion and the question is how
> could be added with minimum damages, for example at the end of the
> existing ip_conntrack structure, so a nice little userspace daemon could
> parse the /proc/net/ip_conntrack and generate the damned netflow packets
> that everybody seem to want now :( !!!

I think you should get in contact with the netfilter-coreteam about this
and subscribe to the netfilter-devel-mailinglist - see
http://netfilter.samba.org/ for subscribe-information.

c'ya
sven

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