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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Holger Eitzenberger <heitzenberger@astaro.com>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, holger@eitzenberger.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: NFCT ulogd pluging [was Re: [ULOGD RFC 11/30] NFCT: make reconfigurable]
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:17:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A27325.10301@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A0E648.1020709@astaro.com>

Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
>> JFYI: conntrackd also does connection tracking accounting so I'm not
>> sure if ulogd should do this as well via the NFCT plugin. This looks
>> like duplicated effort IMO and, as for now, conntrackd also provides
>> userspace conntrack table dumping without locking the kernel via
>> `conntrackd -i' which is a feature that ulogd does not provide.
> 
> yes, I know that conntrackd does that, but for a different audience.
> Also, can conntrackd write a SQLITE database too?
> 
> IMO the strong point in favour of ulogd is its flexibility.  Want
> Postgres as a backend?  Or a plain text file?  Not a problem, just
> change the config file.

Indeed. This makes sense.

-- 
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30 18:58 [ULOGD RFC 00/30] [ULOGD RFC] ulogd V2 improvements, round #1 heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 01/30] Add NACCT output plugin heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 02/30] common.h: added heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 03/30] Replace timer code by working version heitzenberger
2008-02-01  3:42   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01  8:15     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-01  9:25       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01  9:43         ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-01  9:51           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 04/30] Add IFI list heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 05/30] Add signalling subsystem heitzenberger
2008-02-01  3:46   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01  8:18     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-01  9:17       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01  9:30         ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-01 10:11     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 06/30] Conffile cleanup, use common pr_debug() heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 07/30] Renice to -1 on startup heitzenberger
2008-02-01  3:47   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01  7:19     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01  9:12     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 08/30] NFCT: rework heitzenberger
2008-02-01  1:23   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01  8:09     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-01  9:11       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01 13:37         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01 16:19           ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-01 16:47             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01 17:06               ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-02 21:10                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01  9:10     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01  9:38       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-02 16:20   ` [PATCH] " Eric Leblond
2008-02-02 20:07     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 09/30] Port to ulogd 2.00, mostly a rewrite heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 10/30] Initial round to make plugins reconfigurable heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 11/30] NFCT: make reconfigurable heitzenberger
2008-01-30 19:30   ` NFCT ulogd pluging [was Re: [ULOGD RFC 11/30] NFCT: make reconfigurable] Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-01-30 19:51     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-30 20:39     ` Harald Welte
2008-01-30 21:04     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-01  1:17       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2008-01-30 18:58 ` [ULOGD RFC 12/30] SQLITE3: make reconfigurable heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 13/30] NFCT: add disable switch heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 14/30] SQLITLE3: " heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 15/30] NFCT: add sequence cache heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 16/30] SQLITE3: handle locked DB smarter heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 17/30] NFCT: use localtime for timestamps heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 18/30] NFCT: properly account both directions in all cases heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 19/30] llist: add llist_for_each_prev_safe() heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 20/30] SQLITE3: generalize error handling heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 21/30] Improve select performance heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 22/30] Add set_sockbuf_len() heitzenberger
2008-02-01  3:50   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01  8:20     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-02-01  9:20       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 23/30] NFCT: make sequence cache bigger, make handling smarter heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 24/30] NFCT: increase socket buffers heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 25/30] Introduce global state, skip some stacks during reconfiguration heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 26/30] llist: turn poisoning off by default heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 27/30] NFCT: cleanup direction handling heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 28/30] NFCT: fix start/stop handling heitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 29/30] NFCT: adapt to new libnetfilter_conntrack heitzenberger
2008-02-01  3:55   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-02-01  8:33     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2008-01-30 18:59 ` [ULOGD RFC 30/30] SQLITE3: move timer initialization to start handler heitzenberger
2008-01-30 19:18 ` [ULOGD RFC 00/30] [ULOGD RFC] ulogd V2 improvements, round #1 Patrick McHardy
2008-01-30 20:59   ` Holger Eitzenberger

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