libnetfilter_acct is the userspace library that provides a programming interface (API) to the extended accounting infrastructure. Basically, you can find here a set of helper functions that you can use together with libmnl.

libnetfilter_acct homepage is: http://netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_acct/

Dependencies

libnetfilter_acct requires libmnl >= 1.0.0 and the Linux kernel that includes the nfnetlink_acct subsystem (i.e. 3.3.x or any later).

Features

• listing/retrieving existing accounting objects.
• atomically retrieving and reset accounting objects.
• inserting/modifying/deleting accounting objects.

Tree

The current development version of libnetfilter_acct can be accessed at https://git.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libnetfilter_acct.git

Using libnetfilter_acct

To write your own program using libnetfilter_acct, you should start by reading the documentation for libmnl to understand basic operation with Netlink sockets. Moreover, you may want to check the examples available under examples/ in the libnetfilter_acct source code. You can compile these examples by invoking `make check'.

Authors

libnetfilter_acct has been written by Pablo Neira Ayuso.