Re: [ULOGD PATCH 1/3] Do not set oob.family in config as it can be found in packet.

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Hi,

On Friday, 2008 February  8 at 18:49:14 +0100, Peter Warasin wrote:
> Hi Eric
> 
> Eric Leblond wrote:
> 
> That field is necessary if NFLOG logging should also work from within
> ebtables (I sent ebtables patches recently).
> Sending from ebtables oob.family is AF_BRIDGE, since there could also
> come arp packets to be logged.

Thanks for pointing this.

> Configuring the addressfamily manually within the configuration file
> is how you then register the log handler for AF_BRIDGE. It is not
> always necessary to have that handler registered, so it's good
> practice to decide this by configuration file, i think.
> 
> What you say?

The main motivation of this patch was to get around the problem of being
force to declare one loggers for IPv4 and one for IPv6. Adding AF_BRIDGE
into account, make me ask to forget about this patch.

I will put focus on this when documentating the issue in the configuration
file.

BR,
-- 
Eric Leblond
INL: http://www.inl.fr/
NuFW: http://www.nufw.org/

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