Re: NFCT ulogd pluging [was Re: [ULOGD RFC 11/30] NFCT: make reconfigurable]

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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.

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