Please upgrade to ulogd2 (ulogd1 has no support for IPv6 and NFLOG)

[Jürgen Kreileder]

Binary package hint: ulogd

ULOG has been declared obsolete in the kernel and it actually has been removed from the IPv6 netfilter code already. The replacement is NFLOG. ulogd-1.* only supports ULOG which makes it quite useless for people with IPv6 firewalls. Please upgrade to ulogd-2.* which also supports NFLOG.

http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html
https://git.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ulogd2.git;a=summary

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

There is a preliminary deb packages available for Debian.

The fact that ulogd (ULOG-based) has been deprecated in favor of ulogd2 (ULOG- and NFLOG-based) is also testified by the respective git repositories:

* https://git.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ulogd.git;a=summary (last change 2008-06-18)
* https://git.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ulogd2.git;a=summary (last change 2010-06-16)

No support for NFLOG means that *the current Ubuntu distributions have no support for user-space LOG in IPv6*.

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

The latest messages on the bug report on Debian (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502305#101) show that most of the problems with the package creation are gone. What is left is to decide an upgrade path from ulog1, maybe the Ubuntu devs can coordinate with Debian to solve that.

It would be nice to have this package in Ubuntu in time for the 12.04 LTS. An LTS without a working firewall logging system for IPv6?

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

ulogd1 has been discontinued and EOL'ed upstream. No more bugfixes and security updates for it. ulogd2 is now the stable and only branch.

From <http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html>:

«ulogd-1.x has been around since 2000. Since 2012, 1.x series have entered end-of-life. All production systems should migrate to the stable series ulogd-2.x as soon as possible as we do not plan to make more 1.x releases. »