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From: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/*] ctnetlink major update
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:36:03 -0400
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:36:48PM +0200, Pablo Neira wrote:
> Sorry, this patch has been gzip'ed since I wasn't sure if it excedees the=
=20
> maximun size allowed that can be sent to the mailling list (bigger than 3=
0K).
=20
it's 40k, and you can send larger emails, they will be administratively
approved by Travis, our listmaster.  Please only send text attachments.

> I didn't generate the incremental diff against the previous version since=
 it=20
> doesn't make too many sense because this update introduces too many chang=
es.

it _always_ makes sense.  Everybody reviewing your patch will otherwise
have to create such a diff before he can reasonably review.

> ip_conntrack_netlink doesn't use ip_conntrack structures anymore, instead=
 we=20
> use nested ctnetlink atributes. This way protect us against furture chang=
es=20
> that could break backward compatibility. And now it's fairly easy
> porting this to nfnetlink.

ACK.

> getting, creation, deletion of expectation isn't implemented yet. I kept =
it=20
> back until my come back, I didn't have enough time to finish it. Anyway,=
=20
> porting the old expectation handling functions to support ctnetlink
> attributes must be an easy job. If someone is interested, I kept those
> old functions here:

I'll be adding them to your recent changes.

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  "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
   architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
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