snmp management of iptables

I suppose it doesn't exist but I am looking for an snmp agent that will
manage iptables. What I actually want to do only involves a small
subset of iptables capacity so I could code one myself, but if it
already exists I see no reason not to use it. Freshmeat is not showing
one and google search ends up being about iptables impact on snmp
traffic.

Anyone know if such a thing exists?

Noah Roberts wrote:
> I suppose it doesn't exist but I am looking for an snmp agent that will
> manage iptables. What I actually want to do only involves a small
> subset of iptables capacity so I could code one myself, but if it
> already exists I see no reason not to use it. Freshmeat is not showing
> one and google search ends up being about iptables impact on snmp
> traffic.
>
> Anyone know if such a thing exists?
>
directly for iptables i don't have found nothing , but ipcop firewall(or
iptables GUI) have a module SNMP to manage iptables..

bye
peppe

Noah Roberts wrote:
> I suppose it doesn't exist but I am looking for an snmp agent that will
> manage iptables. What I actually want to do only involves a small
> subset of iptables capacity so I could code one myself, but if it
> already exists I see no reason not to use it. Freshmeat is not showing
> one and google search ends up being about iptables impact on snmp
> traffic.
>
> Anyone know if such a thing exists?

You can configure the SNMP Linux agent to read the counters of the
rules in iptables. It's a little complicate to implement but can
be done.


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