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| author | /C=EU/ST=EU/CN=Pablo Neira Ayuso/emailAddress=pablo@netfilter.org </C=EU/ST=EU/CN=Pablo Neira Ayuso/emailAddress=pablo@netfilter.org> | 2007-04-16 17:55:00 +0000 |
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| committer | /C=EU/ST=EU/CN=Pablo Neira Ayuso/emailAddress=pablo@netfilter.org </C=EU/ST=EU/CN=Pablo Neira Ayuso/emailAddress=pablo@netfilter.org> | 2007-04-16 17:55:00 +0000 |
| commit | ad31f852c3454136bdbfeb7f222cb9c175f13c1c (patch) | |
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initial import of the conntrack daemon to Netfilter SVN
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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +This package contains two subdirectories: + +cli (command line interface) +============================ +This subdirectory contains the command line tool `conntrack' that provides an +userspace interface to the connection tracking system. This tool let system +administrators perform different actions against the connection tracking +table. For more information see the manpage conntrack(8). + +daemon +====== +This subdirectory contains the userspace connection tracking daemon so-called +'conntrackd`. This daemon maintains a copy of the connection tracking table +in userspace. It is highly configurable and easily extensible. Currently it +covers the specific aspects of stateful GNU/Linux firewalls to enable high +availability solutions and can be used as statistics collector of the firewall +use. |