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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Tarun Khanna <tkhanna@akamai.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: per flow stats collection using libnetfilter_conntrack
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 23:12:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170227221258.GA30877@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3bbe482c-863f-2b29-e3fd-522b0079ddbb@akamai.com>

Tarun Khanna <tkhanna@akamai.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to register for callbacks so that a user application is
> updated on a regular basis when the packet or bytes counts change for flows?

No, update to packet/byte count doesn't trigger an event (it would
trigger too often).

> I can poll the stats using something similar to "conntrack -L". However, I
> was wondering if it's possible to be notified regularly on updates.

No.  What semantics would you be interested in?

Dumping is quite fast, whats the problem you need to solve?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-27 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-27 20:49 per flow stats collection using libnetfilter_conntrack Tarun Khanna
2017-02-27 22:12 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2017-02-27 22:36   ` Tarun Khanna
2017-03-09  9:40     ` Florian Westphal
2017-03-09 15:52       ` Tarun Khanna

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