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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -Userspace logging facility for iptables / linux 2.4 +Userspace logging daemon for netfilter/iptables + $Id$ Project Homepage: http://www.gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd @@ -9,7 +10,16 @@ in the doc/ subdirectory. ===> IDEA -This packages is intended for passing packets from the kernel to userspace +This packages is intended for doing all netfilter related logging inside a +userspace process. This includes + - logging of ruleset violations via ipt_ULOG (kernel 2.4.18+) + - logging of ruleset violations via nfnetlink_log (kernel 2.6.14+) + - logging of connection startup/teardown (kernel 2.6.14+) + - connection-based accounting (kernel 2.6.14+) + +The to-be-logged information + +from passing packets from the kernel to userspace to do some logging there. It should work like that: - Register a target called ULOG with iptables @@ -31,10 +41,11 @@ write userspace logging daemons. The functions provided are described in the source code, a small demo program (ulog_test) is also included. = ulogd daemon (ulogd) -A sophisticated logging daemon which uses libipulog. The daemon provides -an easy to use plugin interface to write additional packet interpreters and -output targets. Example plugins (interpreter: ip, tcp, icmp output: simple -logging to a file) are included. +A sophisticated logging daemon core which uses a plugin for about anything. The +daemon provides a plugin API for + - input plugins + - filter plugins + - output plugins = documentation (doc) A quite verbose documentation of this package and it's configuration exists, @@ -88,10 +99,10 @@ Setting --ulog-cprange to 0 does always copy the whole packet. Default is 0 ===> COPYRIGHT + CREDITS -The code is (C) 2000-2004 by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> +The code and documentation is (C) 2000-2005 by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> -Thanks also to the valuable Contributions of Daniel Stone, Alexander -Janssen and Michael Stolovitzsky. +Thanks also to the valuable contributions of Daniel Stone, Alexander Janssen, +Michael Stolovitzsky and Jozsef Kadlecsik. Credits to Rusty Russell, James Morris, Marc Boucher and all the other netfilter hackers. |