Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2001 04:24:15 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5 |
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:46:12AM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > On Monday 16 April 2001 10:40, you wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstand what it is exactly you are trying to do, > > but I would think that this could be done entirely in userland by > > software that just adds rules for you instead of you having to do > > it manually. > > I suppose, but it would be so much easier if the kernel did it automatically. > Having a rule to go through for each IP address to be logged would be slower > than implementing one rule that would log all of them. Doing this in the > kernel would improve preformance.
Perhaps "netflow" would be an answer ?
It is cisco idea for collecting accounting data for network flows. System has a cache of flows for which it collects data, and once the cache overflows (or flow times out), data is sent to designated flow collection server(s).
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/iosw/ioft/neflct/tech/napps_wp.htm
> David
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