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From: Marcus Sundberg <marcus@ingate.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist
	<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>,
	Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>, Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] alternative to conntrack ID
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 22:36:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <427D26E7.8060701@ingate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427B8A46.8090006@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Amin Azez wrote:
> 
>>There isn't the problems of having to generate a unique id, or the worry
>>of it finally wrapping every few years as we don't pretend it is unique.
>>However, combined with either tuple it forms a unique id that wraps only
>>when the calendar does.
> 
> Wrapping is not a problem with a 64bit id. One thing I'm worried about
> with using a timestamp is that it might not be of high enough precision
> with very fast CPU and network to uniquely identify each connection.

You don't even need fast CPUs or networks to risk precision problems
- think multiple NICs and SMP.

//Marcus
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  Marcus Sundberg <marcus@ingate.com>  | Firewalls with SIP & NAT
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-07 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-27 23:55 [RFC] [PATCH] ctnetlink updates Pablo Neira
2005-04-01  6:59 ` Harald Welte
2005-04-03 18:01 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-04-06 18:08   ` Pablo Neira
2005-04-17 15:07     ` Patrick McHardy
2005-04-29  7:14       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-04-29  8:02         ` Harald Welte
2005-05-04  9:18           ` [RFC] alternative to conntrack ID Amin Azez
2005-05-04  9:32             ` Patrick Schaaf
2005-05-04 11:30             ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-04 12:01               ` Amin Azez
2005-05-06 15:16                 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-07 20:36                   ` Marcus Sundberg [this message]
2005-05-07 22:18                     ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-07 22:32                       ` Marcus Sundberg
2005-05-09 14:17                         ` KOVACS Krisztian
2005-05-09 15:08                           ` Amin Azez
2005-05-10  6:49                             ` Harald Welte
2005-05-17 16:12                           ` Amin Azez
2005-05-17 20:17                             ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-18  7:24                               ` Amin Azez
2005-05-18  9:30                               ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-06-04 23:52                                 ` Pablo Neira
2005-06-05  1:02                                   ` Pablo Neira
2005-06-06  8:48                                     ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-06-09 12:52                                       ` Pablo Neira
2005-06-09 13:00                                         ` Pablo Neira
2005-06-09 13:34                                           ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-06-10 10:21                                             ` Pablo Neira
2005-06-13  7:41                                               ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-06-14  2:30                                                 ` Pablo Neira
2005-06-14  2:42                                                   ` Patrick McHardy
2005-06-15  2:41                                                     ` Pablo Neira
2005-06-20 16:04                                                     ` Amin Azez
2005-06-20 16:12                                                       ` Patrick McHardy
2005-06-22  9:09                                                         ` Amin Azez
2005-06-22  9:30                                                           ` Oscar Mechanic
2005-06-22 17:23                                                           ` Patrick McHardy
2005-07-11  5:41                                                             ` Harald Welte
2005-07-11  7:47                                                               ` Patrick McHardy
2005-07-11  9:50                                                                 ` Pablo Neira
2005-06-06  8:17                                   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-05-18  6:45                             ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-05-18  7:08                               ` Amin Azez
2005-05-18  7:17                                 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-05-11  8:43                         ` Amin Azez
2005-05-01 23:49         ` [RFC] [PATCH] ctnetlink updates Pablo Neira
2005-05-02 10:47           ` Harald Welte

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