From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Danny Rathjens <gmane@rathjens.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipt_LOG split MAC
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:26:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <450A2B92.7020604@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <edsbl9$eq$1@sea.gmane.org>
Danny Rathjens wrote:
> Is a patch like this sensible?
> with the log messages currently looking like:
> IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:c0:49:5f:9a:0d:00:00:c5:66:00:28:08:00
> SRC=72.234.128.92 DST=72.1.142.189 ...
> it's hard to tell what the source or destination MAC address is.
>
> I just split the MAC header in half, but now that I am reading more about
> variable length MAC addresses I don't think that is the right way to do it.
>
> Just spitting out the raw header seems pretty efficient, too. Perhaps that
> is by design for efficienecy as opposed to laziness? :)
I don't think so :) We can't change it however since that would most
likely break lots of existing log file parsers.
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2006-09-08 18:09 [PATCH] ipt_LOG split MAC Danny Rathjens
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