From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Schillstrom Subject: Re: [PATCH] NETFILTER module xt_hmark new target for HASH MARK Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 18:40:36 +0100 Message-ID: <201102031840.37099.hans@schillstrom.com> References: <1296740050-6311-1-git-send-email-hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com> <4D4AD305.2060505@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Hans Schillstrom , "kaber@trash.net" , "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org -- Mvh Hasse Schillstrom 070-699 7150 On Thursday, February 03, 2011 17:32:07 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2011-02-03 17:08, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > >>> Hm, this is actually not straight forward to implement, you'll have to > >>> use hook functions to avoid the module dependencies with conntrack and > >>> that's pretty annoying. > >>> > >>> I don't come up with a good solution for this. > >> > >> If it loads conntrack always, there is the option to shovel it > >> into xt_connmark.c. > > > >the problem is that Hans wants this not to depend on conntrack always. > > Well you porbably won't get around the nf_conntrack module dependency, > but conntrack can still be disabled through CT --notrack > if one does not like the runtime cost. > If you do put this in front of a bunch of load balancers, there is probably a lot of traffic :-) So that's the reason why I don't want do depend upon conntrack.