From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: NFCT ulogd pluging [was Re: [ULOGD RFC 11/30] NFCT: make reconfigurable] Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:17:25 +0100 Message-ID: <47A27325.10301@netfilter.org> References: <20080130185847.693274384@kruemel.intranet.astaro.de> <20080130190127.847510508@kruemel.intranet.astaro.de> <47A0D063.7040807@netfilter.org> <47A0E648.1020709@astaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Harald Welte , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, holger@eitzenberger.org, Patrick McHardy To: Holger Eitzenberger Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:38370 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934882AbYBABRe (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:17:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47A0E648.1020709@astaro.com> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Holger Eitzenberger wrote: > 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. > > 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. Indeed. This makes sense. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers