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Purpose

ulog-acctd collects headers of IP packets fhat travel through the Linux 2.4+ netfilter. It writes accounting information to a log which can include

• protocol type,
• source and destination address,
• port information,
• byte and packet count,
• incoming and outgoing network interfaces.

The log file format is configurable. For instance, it should be possible to directly generate files that contain SQL statements so that the raw accounting data can be fed into a DBMS.