Re: Feature request & patch

Hello List,

well, 6 days have passed since I sent my original post and there isn't
any response yet. Not very surprisingly but anyway I would like to
know two things:

1. What do others think about the usefulness of such a feature?

2. What are the chances for this to be included into the next (or one
of the subsequent) release?

Best regards,
Andrei

Friday, July 4, 2003, 1:55:58 PM, Andrei Syrovenko wrote:
> Hello List, hello Darren.

> It would be perfect to be able to "pin" a label to a rule so that
> there will be a simple but efficient way to distinguish between rules
> or a group of rules. These labels should not be unique. Then, for
> example, I will be able to look through a list of rules and sum up all
> the statistic counters associated with rules with the same label
> before storing them to database.

> I made some changes to IPFilter to allow users to pin a label to
> rules. The syntax will be as follows:

> count in on ed0 from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.201 port = 3128 label 1
> count out on ed1 from 192.168.1.1 to any label 1

> count out on ed0 from 192.168.1.201 port = 3128 to 192.168.1.1 label 10001
> count in on ed1 from any to 192.168.1.1 label 10001

> You can find patches for IPFilter 3.4.31 and 3.4.32 in attached files.
> Could someone who is familiar enough with IPFilter source (Darren?)
> review them as there might be some additional changes required due to
> the change made to 'ip_fil.h'.

> Regards,
> Andrei.