On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:12, Chris Brenton wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:40, Lasse B. Jensen wrote: > > > > Is it possible to change the log format of iptables? > What about using something like ULOG? AFAIR you can use ULOG (and ulogd) to 'redirect' the log to almost any other format, including a SQL database. > As others have pointed out this is not possible, however it might make a > nice feature to be added in. I've noticed that in high bandwidth > environments what chokes throughput the most is logging. This > materializes as the boxes throughput topping out quicker as well as > garbled/partial log entries being written. > > I *strongly* feel that one of Netfilter's biggest strengths is the level > of detail in the logs and would hate to see that change. When your > pushing high speeds however, your choices come down to collecting > verbose info (and thus limiting throughput) or not collecting log > entries. An option that permits a terse log format (say IPs, ports & > transport only) might be a nice balance. > > Just my $.02, > Chris > -- -- Raymond Leach <raymondl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Network Support Specialist http://www.knowledgefactory.co.za "lynx -source http://www.rchq.co.za/raymondl.asc | gpg --import" Key fingerprint = 7209 A695 9EE0 E971 A9AD 00EE 8757 EE47 F06F FB28 --
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