pmacct (Promiscuous mode IP Accounting package)
pmacct is Copyright (C) 2003-2005 by Paolo Lucente


This software is currently under strong development, i'll try to
reach a good and stable stage as soon as possible; the project
has been started for practical reasons and i'm working on it,
enthusiastically, mostly in my spare time. Any comment, idea,
and any other kind of help, contribution or support is warmly
welcome. Listed below are only few ideas to be reached as soon
as possible.
Currently, this software has to be considered in a development
stage, so take care when using it in a production environment.
If you find any bug, problem or misbehaviour don't hesitate to
contact me.
I'm currently not able to provide any kind of mission critical
support, mainly for lack of resources. However, you may find
useful the 'pmacct-discussion' mailing-list for getting in
touch with us. Find details about it onto the project homepage. 
If you have resources or proposals, feel free to contact me
(email is in AUTHORS document); i'll be happy to read about
them; i'll answer you as soon as possible.
 
 + Alignment issues; configure now does the proper test for
   unaligned accesses; a set of macros to copy 8/16/32 bit
   chunks has also been created: it *should* be sufficient
   as framework. Alignment issues have to be incrementally
   resolved.
 + explore new capturing 'sources' other than libpcap and
   all supported NetFlow versions. 
 + improvements to the plugins architecture; more advanced
   concept would be greatly useful: they would permit some
   advanced feature such as hotswap of old plugins without
   restarting the daemon and should ease development of
   custom plugins. 
 + optimizations to the communication between SQL plugins
   and MySQL/PostgreSQL servers. This should lead to the
   introduction of non-standard SQL queries and hints to 
   short-circuit the UPDATE-then-INSERT cycle. 
 + find if there is any interesting backend to support out
   there. Writing to files is an already inflated proposal. 
 + improvements to automake/autoconf part, i wrote a really
   rough Makefile.am/configure.in pairs, trying to make things
   work, that's all. 

Cheers,
Paolo

