Re: Change iptables log format (would be a nice feature)

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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:11:46PM +0200, Lasse B. Jensen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Harald Welte wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:12:26PM -0400, 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?
> > > 
> > > 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 is why you should use ULOG / ulogd if you log many packets.
> 
> I have now tried with ulog and ulogd and got a much better performance.... 
> however i seem that the timestamp i ulog i "fucked up". My time on the 
> machine i fine, but the ulog timestamp says Jan 12 00.04.02 when the 
> date-output says Okt 8 11.43.22 
> 
> Can anyone give me an explanation?

the answer is in the ulogd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailinglist archive, there
is also a patch for it (in ulogd CVS).  I'm about to release ulogd-1.02
because of that bug.

> /Lasse

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