[4206] in linux-net channel archive
/dev/alert ? (was: Re: SYN floods)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Nugent)
Wed Aug 28 03:07:49 1996
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:34:18 +1000
To: ecki@inka.de, submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: Tony Nugent <tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au>
Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@inka.de> wrote:
> I'm designing on an /dev/alert (netlink) device, which will send messages
> from the kernel to user space about abnormal conditions like: "listen
> backlog filled up", "syn_rcvd expired", "syn on not listen port", "icmp
> bla"... this si especially for firewalls, but will of course be for other
> things, too.
This sounds ok, but I'm wondering what sort of use this will be...
doesn't syslogd and (especially) klogd do this sort of thing already?
Cheers
Tony
