From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] optimization of ip_conntrack_proto_tcp:tcp_packet()
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:45:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040330104532.6b5cba46.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40694F1F.9070409@eurodev.net>
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:42:39 +0200
Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net> wrote:
> as current tcp tracking doesn't perform so strong tcp transitions
> checking, there won't be any problems. Joszef Kadlecsik is working on a
> full featured tcp tracking system which will take care of this stuff,
> but it still needs a bit of time.
...
> Actually, I think that this change won't modify the current behaviour of
> the tcp connection tracking system because the conntrack will be drop
> sooner or later if a rst is received.
You're right, in fact I keep getting reminded every few weeks about
the lack of sequence number checking in conntrack so I should have
known this :-)
Thanks for the clarification.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-30 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-29 10:33 [PATCH 2.6] optimization of ip_conntrack_proto_tcp:tcp_packet() Harald Welte
2004-03-30 4:17 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-30 10:42 ` Pablo Neira
2004-03-30 18:45 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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