Re: [Shorewall-users] IP traffic accounting and shorewall

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Interesting...

This e-mail is quickly getting off-topic, so before closing the thread, m=
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last question: given that netfilter isn't there yet, what would you use f=
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that purpose, if you were in my shoes? I absolutely need to solve the=20
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job.

Thanks,

Corrado

PS: today I noticed that my notebook got its date reset backc to 1999, he=
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my previous e-mails could have strange dates in the past :-)

On Saturday 29 March 2003 15:33, Tom Eastep wrote:
> There was a post on the Netfilter development recently from someone who
> was working on session-level accounting. Such development often fails t=
o
> produce anything useful and those that do typically take a year or two =
to
> make it into production kernels.
>
> So Netfilter may eventually be able to do what you want in an efficient
> manner but it won't be any time soon...
>
> -Tom