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NIELD(Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the netlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache(ARP,NDP), IP address(IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.

News

June 27, 2012

NIELD 0.3.0 released.
This release includes syslog support, and RPM packages are also available.

Apr 11, 2012

NIELD 0.23 released.
This release includes minor updates and bugfixes.

Feb 10, 2012

NIELD 0.22 released.
This release includes minor updates and bugfixes.

Dec 27, 2011

NIELD 0.21 released.
It added support for the gretap interface, and minor bugfixes.

Aug 17, 2011

NIELD 0.20 released.
It added new events to display the state of the ethernet bridge and the bonding interface.

Jun 21, 2011

NIELD 0.11 released.
It fixed to debug rtm_flags and check RTM_F_CLONED.

Feb 6, 2011

If you use kernel 2.6.18, it is likely that nield cannot receive events related to neighbor cache(ARP,NDP) due to kernel bug. Please update your kernel to 2.6.18-194 or above to fix it. Thanks nob!!

Jan 23, 2011

NIELD 0.10 released.