pmacct (Promiscuous mode IP Accounting package)
pmacct is Copyright (C) 2004 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, i'll work
on it mostly in my spare time. Any comment, suggestion, test,
ideas 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 an early
development stage, so take care when using it in a production
environment.
I'm not able (time constraints) to provide any kind of mailing
list or discussion/support stuff. Contact me via email address
listed in AUTHORS file for any kind of question, i'll answer
you as soon as possible. 
 
 + fully exploit plugin 'naming'. As of 0.6.1 if data needs to be
   processed by a pcap filter, having more than a single plugin 
   makes no sense. So, a 'pmacctd' data filtering capabilities are
   to be urgently added. 
 + strong improvements to the plugins architecture; more advanced
   concepts are needed. It would permit some advanced feature such
   as hotswap of old plugins without restarting pmacctd and should
   facilitate development of custom plugins. 
 + throw away pipes to let 'core' and 'plugins' communicate.
 + man page and documentation. 
 + strong 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

