[Gllug] netfilter logging

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:18:32PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Doug Winter writes:
> 
> >the user log feature is what you want.  it's still horrible though.  see 
> >ulogd.
> 
> Yep, that seems to work. I can't get the SYSLOG output module to work,
> but just giving a filename to LOGEMU works well enough (for now at least).
> 
> >> (The more I'm forced to use the horror that is iptables, the more
> >> incentive I have to finish my rattables[1] project).
> >
> >I just want pf for linux :(
> 
> ...which is basically what rattables will be -- pf syntax converted to
> iptable rules. Although I may skip netfilter altogether, and go with
> Jamal's tc filtering/u32 stuff instead, which looks promising, and has
> even more need of a decent user interface than does iptables.

Yes: that is nice - and much faster than the sequential matching that iptables
does.

The syslog stuff is based on a 25 year old Unix model ... things have now moved on,
it needs to be redone completely.

-- 
Alain Williams
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