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From: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Subject: Re: nf_conntrack.acct has no effect
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:24:25 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:56:52PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> Currently the default is set based on the old config option.
> When unset, no acct-extend is allocated for *new* conntracks.
> The old ones that do have an acct-extend are still displayed.

I think the current implementation is unfortunate, because the
connbytes match auto-selects CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT, and you end up having
the message always and can't get rid of it other than patching
it out.