On Thursday 2010-10-14 00:18, Mr Dash Four wrote: >>> Is it possible to use event-driven connection tracking - with conntrack-utils >>> or by other means? >>> Ideally, what I would like to do is 'register' a handler for particular >>> connection events (when new connection is established and then closed for >>> example) based on particular pre-defined filter (say, by protocol, >>> source/destination ip etc) and execute a program code/function (if done >>> programmatically) or a script (if done outside the connection-tracking >>> domain) >>> to do what I want? >> >> conntrack -Ee NEW,DESTROY >> >> would list you the specified events as they happen. Combined with a script >> that reacts when a new line is outputted by conntrack should >> do the trick. >> > That's not what I am after! > > If I want to poll a text output every-so-often I can use /proc/net/nf_conntrack -E is event driven. (That's why it's got the "E".) -- 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
