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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: ctnetlink questions
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:36:45 +0200
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Harald Welte wrote:

>Hi Patrick!
>
>A couple of questions regarding your ctnetlink modifications:
>
>1) Why do we need this 'ordered list' ?  I can't remember the exact 
>   reason why it was added
>
The ordered list and the unique conntrack id was added for table 
dumping. Without
it entries could be dumped multiple times or even worse a single hash 
chain chould
be dumped over and over again if it's contents exceeded the size of a 
single skb.

>2) Why did you merge connmark and ctnetlink?  Was it just for
>   convenience? If yes, I'd appreciate to have them seperated again.
>
It's just a left-over .. I started hacking on ctnetlink to change 
connection marks
from userspace .. I'm going to remove it from the next patch.

Best regards,
Patrick

>
>Thanks.
>
>  
>