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From: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Subject: Re: How to make conntrack ignore packets on certain interfaces?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:07:18 +1000
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Colin Paton wrote:
> - Register a higher-priority netfilter hook which is called before 
> conntrack_in() - this somehow(?!) causes the packet to jump over netfilter. 
> I'm not sure if 'jumping' over netfilter hooks is possible however.
> - Tell the conntrack code (somehow) to ignore packet coming on eth1.6. While 
> it seems that iptables can read the connection tracking state I don't think 
> it can alter it.

The raw patch in pom-ng will let you do this.  It adds a raw table
that is higher priority then conntrack, and a NOTRACK target which
tells conntrack to ignore packets.

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Philip Craig - SnapGear, A CyberGuard Company - http://www.SnapGear.com