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| author | laforge <laforge> | 2001-01-30 09:29:42 +0000 |
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| committer | laforge <laforge> | 2001-01-30 09:29:42 +0000 |
| commit | 0429c7ba66ecc132be06f13b5e462c5a1c77e5ec (patch) | |
| tree | 5f46b588ae2706f987d3dcbdfdb6b42fc0450d8f /README | |
| parent | 5cc6fec28591227c5159217d237054412ecda071 (diff) | |
update of README
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Userspace logging facility for netfilter / linux 2.4 -$Id: README,v 1.1 2000/08/02 12:37:58 laforge Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.2 2000/09/22 06:57:16 laforge Exp $ ===> IDEA @@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ to do some logging there. It should work like that: - Register a target called ULOG with netfilter - if the target is hit: - send the packet out using netlink multicast facility - - return NF_ACCEPT immediately + - return NF_CONTINUE immediately -We don't have to enqueue packets, just send them out as datagrams. If the -user process isn't fast enough this isn't our problem. +New with ipt_ULOG 0.8 we can accumulate packets in userspace and send +them in small batches (1-50) to userspace. This reduces the amount of +expensive context switches. More than one logging daemon may listen to the netlink multicast address. @@ -20,6 +21,11 @@ More than one logging daemon may listen to the netlink multicast address. The package is consisting out of three parts: +NOTE: +ipt_ULOG and libipt_ULOG are NOW INCLUDED IN NETFILTER patch-o-matic. +I strongly recommend using the latest package or even CVS from +http://netfilter.samba.org + 1. Netfilter target ipt_ULOG This is the kernel module which does the kernel part of packet passing to the userspace. This module is inserted on demand through the netfilter |