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From: Saikiran Madugula <hummerbliss@gmail.com>
To: Nils Rennebarth <Nils.Rennebarth@web.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to add data to connection tracker
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:34:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC33445.5060700@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <845389504@web.de>

Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>
> I need to store some additional data to a connection in the connection tracker. Although infrastructure to do that
> appears to be in place, I could not find an obvious way to do that. I *did* read the kernel source and already know
> how to write and register a new netfilter extension.
> 

You can utilize netfilter conntrack's extension infrastructure. Look at
nf_conntrack_acct.c to how its done. I am pretty sure you would receive better
solutions from the list.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-30 10:29 How to add data to connection tracker Nils Rennebarth
2009-09-30 10:34 ` Saikiran Madugula [this message]

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