From: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Cc: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: Illegal option `-i' with conntrack -I
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:23:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511031523.48170@nienna> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511031510130.4331@bizon.gios.gov.pl>
Hi,
On Thursday 03 November 2005 15.12, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 November 2005 14.36, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> >> It seems it is not possible to specify conntrack id while adding
> >> new conntrack. Is it intentionally?
> >
> > I guess it's intentional. For the netlink dump to work you need
> > the IDs of conntrack entries to be unique and monotonously
> > increasing, and that's what setting the ID from userspace could
> > ruin.
>
> So netlink will never allow to save & restore exact status of
> the ip_conntrack?
Apart from the netlink interface nothing uses the ID, so obviously
there's no way it could have any influence on connection tracking or
packet classification. But then what's the point in restoring it?
--
Regards,
Krisztian Kovacs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-03 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-03 13:36 Illegal option `-i' with conntrack -I Krzysztof Oledzki
2005-11-03 14:07 ` KOVACS Krisztian
2005-11-03 14:12 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2005-11-03 14:23 ` KOVACS Krisztian [this message]
2005-11-03 14:33 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
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