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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Pete Holland <pholland27@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu,
	kaber@trash.net, jengelh@medozas.de,
	thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] Extended accounting infrastructure for iptables
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:22:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215132216.GA14940@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANtneHJWwcyYhq0U4p6_nc9nDRfpv0_mwGZm_DKr1pHd+urU4w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:29:42AM -0800, Pete Holland wrote:
> This is a great idea, thank you!  This is a problem I'm trying to
> solve right now and have found that using the rule counters is clunky
> and restrictive.  Specifically, this provides the kind of
> functionality that's needed to support changing the rule definitions
> without losing the accounting information.
> 
> Quick question, would this be limited to the filter table, or would we
> be able to use the target (or match as I saw suggested) in other
> tables?
> This would be most useful if it were available in the mangle (so we
> could mark+account in one spot... and if it were a match, in one rule)
> and nat tables (so we can account for traffic pre and post NAT
> treatment).

No restriction regarding what table you want to use this.

P.S: please, don't top-post, that's the nf-ml policy.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 11:00 [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] Extended accounting infrastructure for iptables pablo
2011-12-14 11:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: add extended accounting infrastructure over nfnetlink pablo
2011-12-14 11:16   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-14 12:41     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-14 13:18       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-14 13:45         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-18  0:21           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-14 11:23   ` Patrick McHardy
2011-12-14 13:18     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-14 16:31       ` Patrick McHardy
2011-12-15 12:20         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-14 13:23   ` Changli Gao
2011-12-14 13:43   ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-12-14 16:50     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-14 18:30       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-12-14 23:06         ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-12-15 12:26         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-15 12:32           ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-12-14 13:49   ` Anand Raj Manickam
2011-12-14 13:54     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-14 11:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: xtables: add NFACCT target to support extended accounting pablo
2011-12-14 13:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] Extended accounting infrastructure for iptables Changli Gao
2011-12-14 13:30   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-14 13:37     ` Anand Raj Manickam
2011-12-14 14:52     ` Changli Gao
2011-12-14 15:59       ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-12-15 20:23         ` Ferenc Wagner
2011-12-15 21:01           ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-12-16 15:25             ` Ferenc Wagner
2011-12-17 18:05               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-16 13:08           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-12-14 19:29 ` Pete Holland
2011-12-15 13:22   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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