From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
To: Kiran Kumar <immidi_kiran@yahoo.com>,
netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: TCP conntrack queries
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:21:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <405EBE19.8050209@eurodev.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040322050438.56577.qmail@web14009.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi!
Kiran Kumar wrote:
>Hi,
> As I went through ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c, I had
>these couple of queries.
>
>- Why is there a distinction b/w states NONE and
>CLOSED?
>
>
None is the initial state where every connection starts when a conntrack
is created and Close is when closed connection (I know, quite obvious!).
Anyway have a look at tcp-window-tracking patch because Jozsef spent its
time well-documenting all the possible transitions to let us understand :).
>- The array of timeouts has been replaced (as I get
>from the diff b/w my RH9 kernel sources and 2.6
>sources) by an array of pointers to variables. Why was
>this done?
>
>
because now you can set your own timeouts via sysctl.
regards,
Pablo
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2004-03-22 5:04 TCP conntrack queries Kiran Kumar
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