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From: Jiann-Ming Su <sujiannming@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: connection tracking without iptables?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:24:15 -0400
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:22:41 -0700, Daniel Chemko <dchemko@smgtec.com> wrote:
> Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> > This is probably a dumb question, but is it possible to track
> > connections without iptables/netfilter?
> 
> Yeah, use libpcap and parse it out yourself! (snicker)
> 
> Exactly what are you looking for and why? A good chunk of netfilter is
> *just* connection tracking. What do you expect to get out of just
> conntrack?
> 

Just trying to get an idea of the type and amount of traffic passing
through a subnet.  I've done this before with tcpdump, but that
required an external parsing program to reconstitute all the
connections from the tcpdump capture.

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Jiann-Ming Su
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