From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: "Steve (Telsat Broadband)" <steve@telsatbb.vu>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creation of a custom netfilter/iptables target module
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:02:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131008080208.GA3771@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d7e01cec3b5$dd64f100$982ed300$@telsatbb.vu>
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:35:10AM +1100, Steve (Telsat Broadband) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm seeking the wisdom of the netfilter gurus to get me going in the right
> direction.
>
> Currently, we have a gateway in which several iptables/ip6tables rules send
> information to the LOG target which a custom perl script then reads to
> perform some processing on the sender's MAC and IP.
>
> What I'm wanting to do is relieve load on the system by cutting out the step
> of logging to syslog and sending straight to the processing program either
> via a socket or some other means. I don't need to store any of the
> information in the packet, only pass the MAC and IP (v4 or v6) to the
> processing program.
Did you consider ulogd2?
Regards.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-07 23:35 Creation of a custom netfilter/iptables target module Steve (Telsat Broadband)
2013-10-08 8:02 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20131008080208.GA3771@localhost \
--to=pablo@netfilter.org \
--cc=netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=steve@telsatbb.vu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).