From: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Cc: Kovesdi Gyorgy <kgy@deverto.com>,
Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>,
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: conntrack for multiple interfaces
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:19:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601171319.51023@nienna> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43CCD97D.80800@gmx.net>
Hi,
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12.48, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Conntrack is interface independent, however it does not handle when
> > tuples collide, it assumes they are part of the same connection. (ie.
> > it does not work, unless your IP space is actually divided between
> > interfaces and connections never collide)
Yes, but current mode of operation does work in most cases.
> That's unfortunate. IIRC someone posted a patch to netfilter-devel half
> a year ago (sorry, no exact date) to address that issue. Was there some
> reason not to include it back then?
> The only problem with that patch I can think of right now would be load
> balancing over multiple links.
Apart from breaking a couple of scenarios, what would be the advantage of
differentiating connections per interface?
--
Regards,
Krisztian Kovacs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-17 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-16 12:55 conntrack for multiple interfaces Kovesdi Gyorgy
2006-01-17 8:27 ` KOVACS Krisztian
2006-01-17 8:55 ` Balazs Scheidler
2006-01-17 11:48 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-01-17 12:19 ` KOVACS Krisztian [this message]
2006-01-17 12:48 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
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