From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist <netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/10][CTNETLINK] dump counters iif connection ended or counters filled up
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:48:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ADE7BA.4030406@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44ADC3BD.3050609@netfilter.org>
Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> This patch makes ctnetlink to dump counters iif connection reaches the
> destroy state or altenatively if counters filled up.
>
> AFAICS counters on NEW and UPDATE events doesn't provide interesting
> information, they just consume the limited netlink bandwidth.
>
> Upcoming conntrackd release in statistics mode uses counters from
> DESTROY events to keep the contability of traffic that the firewall has
> processed.
>
> I think that this patch should also reset counters upon fill up event,
> comments?
Not sure, do you know any users of the counters besides conntrackd?
I would like to look at how they're used.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-07 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-07 2:15 [PATCH 6/10][CTNETLINK] dump counters iif connection ended or counters filled up Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-07-07 4:48 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-07-07 8:25 ` Amin Azez
2006-07-07 13:51 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-07-07 16:03 ` Amin Azez
2006-07-10 4:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-07-13 20:09 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-07-14 9:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-07-07 8:18 ` Amin Azez
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