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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-audit@redhat.com,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: audit target to record accepted/dropped packets
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:37:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110114153718.GB9654@canuck.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1101141628480.15541@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:31:05PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2011-01-14 16:20, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 
> >This patch adds a new netfilter target which creates audit records
> >for packets traversing a certain chain.
> 
> Apart from that it uses the audit infrastructure, what would this 
> target offer over LOG (and/or LOGMARK)?

That is the main point of this target. The audit infrastructure
is a trusted infrastructure. Records are properly stored and can
be processed by the audit tools ausearch and aureport.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-14 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-14 15:20 [PATCH] netfilter: audit target to record accepted/dropped packets Thomas Graf
2011-01-14 15:26 ` Eric Paris
2011-01-14 15:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-14 15:37   ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2011-01-14 15:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-14 16:19   ` Thomas Graf
2011-01-14 16:49     ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-14 16:59     ` [PATCHv2] " Thomas Graf
2011-01-14 17:29       ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-14 22:22         ` Thomas Graf
2011-01-14 23:10           ` Michał Mirosław
2011-01-14 23:19             ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-14 23:16           ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-14 22:24         ` [PATCHv3] " Thomas Graf
2011-01-14 23:48           ` [PATCHv4] " Thomas Graf
2011-01-15 16:07             ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-16 17:12           ` [PATCHv3] " Patrick McHardy
2011-01-14 18:51       ` [PATCHv2] " Mr Dash Four
2011-01-14 19:18         ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-14 19:24           ` Eric Paris

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