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Date:   Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:04:17 +0100
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To:     Vitaly Zuevsky <vzuevsky@ns1.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: ctnetlink: remove expired entries first
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Vitaly Zuevsky <vzuevsky@ns1.com> wrote:
> Hi Florian
> 
> Do you have any news on this?
> Meanwhile I cloned the repo git://git.netfilter.org/conntrack-tools,
> ran ./autogen.sh to produce configure, and the latter failed with:
> 
> checking for rpc/rpc_msg.h... yes
> ./configure: line 13329: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBTIRPC,'
> ./configure: line 13329: `  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBTIRPC, libtirpc >= 0.1)'
> 
> Interestingly, PKG_CHECK_MODULES was never defined there. Is that
> repository for production code - I am confused?

Sure.  But the patch is for the kernel.
I already mentioned that this doesn't handle anything for non-nat case.

> > > Maybe 'conntrack -L unconfirmed' or 'conntrack -L dying' show something?

Still stands.

Also, is there really a discrepancy? Please show output of

conntrack -C
conntrack -L | wc -l
conntrack -C

"conntrack -L" reclaims dead/timed-out entries, conntrack -C currently
does not.