Re: ULOG/NFLOG on a non-forwarding machine

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Grant Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> You /might/ be able to catch some traffic *if* the Linux TCP/IP stack
> thought that it was appropriately addressed to the system.

That is exactly the problem. The network stack doesn't think it needs
to do anything with the packets.

> I think you will have better luck doing this with bridging as bridging
> is (more) accustom to dealing with traffic that may or may not be
> addressed to the local system.

If the kernel has to forward the packet, the performance advantages of
using NFLOG probably disappear.

I guess I'm sticking to libpcap then.


/Benny

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