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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: TCP conntrack queries
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:21:13 +0100
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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