From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Holger Eitzenberger Subject: Re: NFCT ulogd pluging [was Re: [ULOGD RFC 11/30] NFCT: make reconfigurable] Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:04:08 +0100 Message-ID: <47A0E648.1020709@astaro.com> References: <20080130185847.693274384@kruemel.intranet.astaro.de> <20080130190127.847510508@kruemel.intranet.astaro.de> <47A0D063.7040807@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Harald Welte , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, holger@eitzenberger.org, Patrick McHardy To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from dhost002-17.dex002.intermedia.net ([64.78.21.83]:40810 "EHLO dhost002-17.dex002.intermedia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752367AbYA3VEO (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:04:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47A0D063.7040807@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > JFYI: conntrackd also does connection tracking accounting so I'm not > sure if ulogd should do this as well via the NFCT plugin. This looks > like duplicated effort IMO and, as for now, conntrackd also provides > userspace conntrack table dumping without locking the kernel via > `conntrackd -i' which is a feature that ulogd does not provide. Hi Pablo, yes, I know that conntrackd does that, but for a different audience. Also, can conntrackd write a SQLITE database too? IMO the strong point in favour of ulogd is its flexibility. Want Postgres as a backend? Or a plain text file? Not a problem, just change the config file. /holger