From: Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/10][CTNETLINK] dump counters iif connection ended or counters filled up
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:18:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AE18CC.40709@ufomechanic.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?
Wouldn't it be better to let them just overflow?
By overflowing instead of resetting the fill-up event is just as
observable but throws away less information
Sam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-07 8:18 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
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 [this message]
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