From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: AFT <aftnix@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netfilter Debugging tips
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:55:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120616095559.GA18022@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa04pt0d.fsf@s1.test.com>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 08:08:34PM +0600, AFT wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a working kernel dev setup with KGDB/KDB. Now as i'm going to
> develop a netfilte module, i need a good strategy to debug netfilter
> modules. During configuring the kernel i've bumped into a kernel config
> like following :
>
> CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG
>
> But i've found no documentaion describing what actually this
> configuration will enable me to do.
>
> So anything regarding this config variable or any other general
> debugging strategy will be helpfull.
With this, the kernel will print debugging information on what the
Netfilter core infrastructure is doing. It also includes some
debugging messages from x_tables instances, ie. ebtables, arp_tables,
and so on.
It's been ages since I haven't used this for any useful purpose
(rather than making sure the kernel compilation does not break with it
enabled).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-16 9:56 UTC|newest]
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2012-06-15 14:08 Netfilter Debugging tips AFT
2012-06-16 9:55 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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