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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:05:23 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Valentine Zaretsky <zaretsky@apex.dp.ua>
Cc:        ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting data size in tee rules
Message-ID:  <20031009140523.C19092@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F847F8A.9030300@apex.dp.ua>; from zaretsky@apex.dp.ua on Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:20:10AM %2B0300
References:  <3F847F8A.9030300@apex.dp.ua>

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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:20:10AM +0300, Valentine Zaretsky wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> In some applications there is no need to send the whole packet to 
> divert-socket (e.g. traffic accounting, where information contained in 
> headers is enough) and it might be useful to have a setting for the 
> length of data buffer that will be diverted from each matching packet.

for those cases, you might want to use the patches i posted some
time ago, which send packets that match a 'log' rule
to a bpf listener.

This would also enable you to set the 'snaplen' at runtime, and
use the vast amount of bpf-based tools instead to have to write
your own.

	cheers
	luigi



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