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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist
	<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>,
	Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>,
	KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] alternative to conntrack ID
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:17:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <428A5141.20901@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <428A1807.8070708@ufomechanic.net>

Amin Azez wrote:
> KOVACS Krisztian wrote:
> 
>>   Probably Patrick was referring to a possible problem where the
>> following happens: a new connection is established and destroyed in a
>> very short time. If a new connection with the same tuple is created
>> before the timestamp increases (which is perfectly possible IMHO if you
>> have some slow embedded HW with no high precision timer available) 

Exactly.

> After further reading I think this scenario is highly unlikely.

Unlikely is still enough reason to handle it properly in an API.
Otherwise anything you build on top of it has to take this into
account for any guarantees it would like to give. And so far, I
haven't even seen a suggestion how to notice it - which would
also be fine with me.

Regards
Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-17 20:17 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
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 [this message]
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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