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

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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?

/Lasse

> 
> > Just my $.02,
> > Chris
> 
> -- 
> - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>             http://www.netfilter.org/
> ============================================================================
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>    architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
>    on while IP was being designed."                    -- Paul Vixie
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