On Wednesday 2009-04-15 10:11, Thomas Jarosch wrote: >Hi Jan, > >On Tuesday, 14. April 2009 18:10:54 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> guess I just forward this to you, as I do not want to touch ACCOUNT >> just yet. > >As you already mentioned, I'm not sure it would be a good idea >to include it as the kernel patch extends the kernel<->user space socket >operations in include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h. > >"ipt_account" is another story as it works differently. >The lastest patch seems to be for 2.6.19 / iptables 1.3.5, >though there is some recent activity on the project homepage. What the user wanted is moving the iptables modules (libipt_account.c/ACCOUNT.c) into Xt-a. The kernel patch would continue to be separate. >I'm still surprised how many people are using ipt_ACCOUNT, >somehow it is magnetic to ISPs in central and eastern europe :-) Sometimes, ulogd is considered to big of a solution. Even I just use xt_quota2 for embedded devices that need to watch their kb limits set forth in their HSDPA link contract. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
