Good afternoon, Michael, On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Michael Gale wrote: > So I have the following idea / solution involving iptables :) > > Solution 1: > First you create a "tmpfs" .. for example in your NTOP home directory call it > tmp (/home/ntop/tmp). Now make this directory a RAM drive that gets mount > everytime we boot up, about 50MB (maybe). > > Now we create a module for iptables to send a copy of every packet on every > interface to the RAM drive or dummy device. > > What do you think ... I do not believe there is a way to do this now :( You seem to be describing ulogd: http://www.stearns.org/doc/iptables-ulog.current.html (with pointers to other relevant sites). You'd instruct ulogd to save its files to a ramdisk as opposed to a physical disk. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Me spell chucker work grate. Need grandma chicken." -- yakkoj@xxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@xxxxxxxxx). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------