Re: ulogd2/NFLOG: nfnetlink_log: error creating log nlmsg

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Thomas Jacob wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 14:12 +0200, Thomas Jacob wrote:
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 07:24:58PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> Thomas Jacob wrote:
>>>> Bug? Feature? If it's the latter, how can I prevent this from
>>>> happening?
>>> Does this patch helps? It seems that we're missing to add the size of
>>> the hardware address since 2.6.27.
>> Thanks for the quick reply and the patch. Unfortunately I haven't found a way
>> to reproduce this problem in a lab environment yet, so I can't confirm
>> whether or not it does anything. Originally the issue
>> occurred when hot-replacing an older system with one that
>> runs NFLOG/ulogd2 and the versions listed, thereby generating lots
>> of invalid packets probably (which should have been logged) as well
>> as some intentional drops (Packet rate at the time maybe was 30kpps).
> 
> Just to let you know, I still haven't been able to reproduce the
> problem in the lab, but the errors went away in the production
> environment after applying your patch, so presumably it did the trick.
> Also, the lines in question are clearly missing anyway.

Thanks for the info. I think that it should be related with the patch.
I'll try make some tests by hot-replacing the daemon in my testbed to
see if I catch anything.

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