From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2003-01-25 02:06:36
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Maarten van den Berg wrote: > On Friday 24 January 2003 04:16, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote: > >>Maarten van den Berg wrote: >> >>>After this works I'll be looking to add some programs, most >>>importantly some means to do IP accounting. Thus I'd be very glad >>>for any tips on which programs could be useful, what has been done or >>>tried before, and especially more extensive docs on how to integrate >>>your own stuff into Devil linux. >> >>I can recommend http://sf.net/projects/ipac-ng but that would imply >>that you'd need to add postgres as well to at least get the postgres >>libs. > > > Thanks. That's exactly what I use now (or is that still ipac[-plain] ?). > What bugs me however is that I _definitely_ do not want a HDD in the > system. It will be CD/floppy based, remote syslogged, and that's it. > > So I'm really unsure how to solve this. Maybe write everything to ramdisk > and periodically upload ? Quite nasty. Talk to a remote postgres through > some tunnel ? Difficult to do right. Hack it so that it sends its info > as syslog data ? Is that even feasible ? Fourth option ?? Check out if Postgres uses TCP, then you can tunnel it with stunnel wich is secure an easy to setup. Just bind stunnel to the local postgres port and tell ipac-ng that the sql server is running on localhost. Use the oposite way on the SQL server. -- Regards Heiko We are Penguin, resistance is futile! http://www.devil-linux.org |