Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

From: David Findlay (david_j_findlay@yahoo.com.au)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 17:46:12 EST


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.

David
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