Re: possible issues with blowing up struct ipt_log_info

[Roberto Nibali <ratz@tac.ch>]

> Well, to be honest I'm happy that I can say - to a certain extend: I
> don't care abou your particular setup and it's political/organizational
> erstrictions ;)  [don't get me wrong, please].

No, I understand and agree with you. You do the technical correctness of what
you implement and we deal with the correct architectural issues.

> As always, I think we should provide some infrastructure and let people
> use it how they want.  We can try to be flexible, but we cannot optimize
> ever possible setup.

Never asked for that ;).

> Your particular setup would need something like a proxy that does the
> interpretation before it ends up at the centralized logging server.

We also have that (a proxy), but still, it's not that easy ... _but_ also
completely off-topic for this list.

> Alternatively you could store the hostname of the firewall and make the
> interpretation of such a prefix local to that host.  Now you certainly
> can come up with a reason why you can't do that.  And I can frankly
> repeat: well, that's your problem ;)  Technically it is possible...

Yes, let's kill this part of the thread.

Cheers,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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