netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: userspace notification target

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Message-ID: <4C3C28EC.2000302@netfilter.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:50:52 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
CC:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: userspace notification target

On 13/07/10 08:18, Changli Gao wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> The userspace notification Xtables target sends a netlink notification
>> whenever a packet hits the target. Notifications have a label attribute
>> for userspace to match it against a previously set rule. The rules also
>> take a --all option to switch between sending a notification for all
>> packets or for the first one only.
>> Userspace can also send a netlink message to toggle this switch while the
>> target is in place. This target uses the nefilter netlink framework.
>>
>> This target combined with various matches (quota, rateest, etc..) allows
>> userspace to make decisions on interfaces handling. One could for example
>> decide to switch between power saving modes depending on estimated rate
>> thresholds.
>>
> 
> It much like the following iptables rules.
> 
> iptables -N log_and_drop
> iptables -A log_and_drop -j NFLOG --nflog-group 1 --nflog-prefix "log_and_drop"
> iptables -A log_and_drop -j DROP
> 
> ...
> iptables ... -m quota --quota-bytes 20000 -j log_and_drop
> ...

Indeed, this looks to me like something that you can do with NFLOG and
some combination of matches.
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