I am running the same script for all the packets. After it finishes execution, it waits for the next signal (i.e the next packet to pass) Regards, Visham On 7/28/05, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > you are right..i'm having a scripting problem..i don't know how to > >> > make a script execute every time a packet is sent by my PC. how can i > >> > do that? > >> > >> You don't want to execute a script for each packet... you could be > >> easily DoSed. Try: > >> > >> http://netfilter.org/patch-o-matic/pom-base.html#pom-base-nth > >> Please reply to the list, so everyone can help and learn. =) > > > >No I only want to execute a script for all packets that are packets > >that are going to be sent out of the NIC (after the packets have been > > That's still a DOS. If I pingflood you, your machine will most likely respond > with "pongflood". > > I have iptraf running for like 4 or 5 days now and it shows almost 11 GB > which approximates to ~ 34 KB/sec (inet radio ;). Let's assume that every > packet was 1500 bytes long - then this would mean that I would be starting 23 > processes per second, which really is inefficient. > > And, you're looking for -j QUEUE. > > >accepted as valid by a firewall). I don't know how to do that. Do you > >know what is the last function in the iptables code or the first > >function in the NIC driver, that a packet that has been accepted by > >the firewall passes before it is sent on the wire? I would then write > >some code so that when a call is made to that function, a signal is > >raised and it will cause a shell script to execute. > >I don't know abt the DoSed command. Do you have any example? > > > >If there is an easier way, please let me know... > > > >MAny thx for the reply. > > > >Warm regards, > >Visham > > > > > > Jan Engelhardt > -- > | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ >
