Hi Neil,

Thanks for the initial pointers. Agree on your feeling of very sparse
documentation. Do you have a text box with IPv6 traffic passing by that
i can log on remotely? It would help to get a bit the grasp of how much
work this actually is and how to keep both ULOG and NFLOG interfaces up
and running. Makes sense to follow-up privately if you (or anybody else
reading) have the testbed available and summarize here at a later stage
when things become more clear.

Cheers,
Paolo

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 08:24:24AM +0100, Neil Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 17:28 +0000, Paolo Lucente wrote:
> > Hi Neil,
> > 
> > If such an issue exists, it's certainly not a problem fixing it. But
> > since i'm not the greatest expert of the ULOG API i would need you to
> > be somewhat more verbose with your comment. Suggestions are certainly
> > appreciated; perhaps you can offer access to a testbed or contribute
> > code yourself?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Paolo
> > 
> 
> Sorry. Final thing on a Friday is probably not the best time to be
> posting your first message on a board.
> 
> Since the answer wasn't "Oh yes you just do this to support NFLOG" I
> guess that means I get to write the code to make it work. I hope you
> don't mind giving me a few pointers into your code.
> 
> The standard ip6tables interface doesn't have a ULOG target only an
> NFLOG target and its clear from what little netfilter documentation
> there is that NFLOG is the interface of preference for the future. At
> least until they change their mind again.
> 
> The documentation is particularly sparse and I've only done a
> preliminary search through the libraries. However I'm hoping that it
> shouldn't be too difficult to switch the formats across.
> 
> The user level interface to the NFLOG structure appears to be a library
> called 'libnetfilter_log' documented here:
> 
> http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_log/doxygen/
> 
> with a test program here:
> 
> http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_log/doxygen/nfulnl__test_8c_source.html
> 
> which appears to use a callback structure to handle the incoming
> packets.
> 
> Do you think including this would be the best way in, or should I stick
> with the lower level netlink interface as used for ULOG?
> 
> Rgs
> 
> Neil 
> 

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