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From: Jiann-Ming Su <sujiannming@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: connection tracking without iptables?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:24:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561dc3260409291924ec5d90d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7C9884991ADAE0479C14F10C858BCDF5679531@alderaan.smgtec.com>

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:22:41 -0700, Daniel Chemko <dchemko@smgtec.com> wrote:
> Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> > This is probably a dumb question, but is it possible to track
> > connections without iptables/netfilter?
> 
> Yeah, use libpcap and parse it out yourself! (snicker)
> 
> Exactly what are you looking for and why? A good chunk of netfilter is
> *just* connection tracking. What do you expect to get out of just
> conntrack?
> 

Just trying to get an idea of the type and amount of traffic passing
through a subnet.  I've done this before with tcpdump, but that
required an external parsing program to reconstitute all the
connections from the tcpdump capture.

-- 
Jiann-Ming Su
"I have to decide between two equally frightening options.  
                                            If I wanted to do that,
I'd vote." --Duckman


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-30  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-29 21:22 connection tracking without iptables? Daniel Chemko
2004-09-30  2:24 ` Jiann-Ming Su [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-30 23:20 Daniel Chemko
2004-09-30 18:19 Daniel Chemko
2004-09-30 18:26 ` Jason Opperisano
2004-09-30 23:04 ` Jiann-Ming Su
2004-09-30 23:34   ` Jason Opperisano
2004-10-14 18:31     ` Jiann-Ming Su
2004-10-14 18:57       ` Jason Opperisano
2004-10-15  5:16         ` Kiran Kumar Immidi
2004-10-16 12:30       ` Jose Maria Lopez
2004-10-25 20:48       ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-09-29 20:50 Jiann-Ming Su
2004-09-29 20:57 ` Alexis
2004-09-29 21:01 ` Jason Opperisano
2004-09-29 21:37 ` Jose Maria Lopez

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