Hi, Ben Lentz wrote: > I am considering using the conntrack-tools userspace package to perform > byte level accounting for iptables by reading events from the connection > tracking table for completed connections and logging the statistics for > the stateful connection to syslog. It appears that conntrack was really > designed to keep redundant firewalls' state tables in sync, but I'm > intrigued by it's ability to use the new connection tracking and state > notification features in netfilter without having to parse or poll > /proc/net/ip_conntrack. > > The goal I'm trying to accomplish is similar to that of: > conntrack -E conntrack -e DESTROY | logger -t conntrack & I just committed a patch to SVN which implements this for the statistics mode. Have a look at the doc/stats/conntrackd.conf example file and enable logging to give it a try. This will be available in the upcoming conntrack-tool 0.9.6 release. Don't forget to run conntrackd with the -S option. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html