From: Samir Bellabes <sbellabes@mandriva.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Network Events Connector
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:56:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m264ez60mg.fsf@cerbere.dyndns.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061002.133314.41657633.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:33:14 -0700 (PDT)")
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> From: Samir Bellabes <sbellabes@mandriva.com>
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:11:06 +0200
>
>> This patch adds a connector which reports networking's events to
>> userspace. It's sending events when a sock has its sk_state changed to :
>> - LISTEN or CLOSE for DCCP and TCP
>> - BIND or CLOSE for UDP.
>>
> You can do this with the security layer, netfilter's ULOG, or even
> the netfilter connection tracking netlink sockets.
>
> That's 3 facilities by which you can accomplish this, and if none
> of them are perfect, add the small modifications you need to one
> of them to make them usable for your task.
>
> It makes no sense to add new facilities just for this.
I see, i will look futher the netfilter conntrack netlink sockets in
order to merge my code into it.
thanks for comments.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-05 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-02 6:11 [PATCH] Network Events Connector Samir Bellabes
2006-10-02 9:02 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-02 12:57 ` Samir Bellabes
2006-10-02 13:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-05 1:10 ` Samir Bellabes
2006-10-05 10:29 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-02 20:33 ` David Miller
2006-10-05 0:56 ` Samir Bellabes [this message]
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