Not sure this is the correct place to post this but I am looking to have status of the firewall and traffic control (active, disabled, stopped etc) on a webpage controlled via something like pid as the machine has many things running on it, like firewall, traffic control, data collection for graphing the traffic flows, as well as other services like squid etc. Any ideas would be most helpful. Kind Regards William _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
Routing, firewalling and shaping run in kernel and has no pid. Instead you can get/set /proc flags, and check for the presence of certain data structures. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is the routing master switch. If 0, the machine forwards nothing. You can both set and get the value, should be relatively easy from a web page. Beware that setting it to 1 may reset other /proc keys to default values. For iptables firewalling you probably need to check if your rules are loaded or not, a script parsing ''iptables -nL'' output could do it. Or you could use a condition match "enabled" in the beginning of each table, and drop all traffic if the condition is false. The /proc/net/ipt_condition/enabled value can then be read and set as a master switch from the web page. Shaping has no /proc files, and no way to create a master switch, so you need a script that parses ''tc qdisc show dev eth0'' or ''tc class show dev eth0'' output. Regards, Simon On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:38, William Bohannan wrote:> Not sure this is the correct place to post this but I am looking to have > status of the firewall and traffic control (active, disabled, stopped etc) > on a webpage controlled via something like pid as the machine has many > things running on it, like firewall, traffic control, data collection for > graphing the traffic flows, as well as other services like squid etc. Any > ideas would be most helpful. > > > > Kind Regards > > > > William
Thanks Simon. That helps out heaps. Going to use what you said and use monit. Kind Regards William -----Original Message----- From: Simon Lodal [mailto:simonl@parknet.dk] Sent: 16 September 2006 14:17 To: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Cc: William Bohannan Subject: Re: [LARTC] process id with firewall and tc Routing, firewalling and shaping run in kernel and has no pid. Instead you can get/set /proc flags, and check for the presence of certain data structures. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is the routing master switch. If 0, the machine forwards nothing. You can both set and get the value, should be relatively easy from a web page. Beware that setting it to 1 may reset other /proc keys to default values. For iptables firewalling you probably need to check if your rules are loaded or not, a script parsing ''iptables -nL'' output could do it. Or you could use a condition match "enabled" in the beginning of each table, and drop all traffic if the condition is false. The /proc/net/ipt_condition/enabled value can then be read and set as a master switch from the web page. Shaping has no /proc files, and no way to create a master switch, so you need a script that parses ''tc qdisc show dev eth0'' or ''tc class show dev eth0'' output. Regards, Simon On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:38, William Bohannan wrote:> Not sure this is the correct place to post this but I am looking to have > status of the firewall and traffic control (active, disabled, stopped etc) > on a webpage controlled via something like pid as the machine has many > things running on it, like firewall, traffic control, data collection for > graphing the traffic flows, as well as other services like squid etc. Any > ideas would be most helpful. > > > > Kind Regards > > > > William