-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Since all of the other traffic accounting implementations I have met right now are inflexible, I decided to write my own one. There are some implementations, that parse the byte counters displayed by iptables and feed their traffic databases by this output. A dirty hack in my opinion. Something that knows about traffic instantly is just better .. so ULOG is a bit more interesting. The only thing that disturbs me: Just for counting packet lengths queue whole packets to userspace? That sounds pretty inefficient to me. Why go to such lengths, if the netfilter kernel code itself already has a way of keeping track of packet lengths? Since the computer I intend to use this accounter on is connected with a 100Mbit NIC I guess something like that would eat up a good chunk of CPU time when there's much traffic to be processed. I am still inexperienced with kernel programming, I would be grateful for any pointers or hints on how to achieve this "real time traffic tracking" without either having to read out any iptable counters every 10 minutes or queue entire packets to userspace. Would a small kernel module do the trick? - -- Thilo Schulz My public PGP key is available at http://home.bawue.de/~arny/public_key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAyKLaZx4hBtWQhl4RArdBAKDhJx2PsIMp9RqtQvKjJGShKWW9GwCeNfZf MWmMffdTQZYcXNP51NtL5js= =wrkr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
