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From: Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/*] nfnetlink updates
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:04:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42D4CAFE.90802@ufomechanic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D42975.8070303@eurodev.net>

Pablo Neira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch introduces the following changes to nfnetlink:
> 
> a) nfnetlink groups: Up to 32 maximum.
> 
> +#define NF_NETLINK_CONNTRACK_NEW       0x1
> +#define NF_NETLINK_CONNTRACK_UPDATE    0x2
> +#define NF_NETLINK_CONNTRACK_DESTROY   0x4
> +#define NF_NETLINK_CONNTRACK_EXPECT    0x8
> 
> I think that those four groups are enough to group events.

Currently there are about 3 netlink packets sent when a connection comes
up and three when it goes down.

I wonder if it is worth being able to filter on the ctstate as well,
under heavy load it is quite a benefit to reduce the netlink throughput
by 3 times. An application might be interested in ESTABLISHED and CLOSE
or TIMEOUT states.

These are subsets of CONNTRACK_UPDATE

I don't feel _very_ strongly about this, but I do think it is worth
mentioning.

Amin

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-13  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-12 20:35 [PATCH 1/*] nfnetlink updates Pablo Neira
2005-07-13  8:04 ` Amin Azez [this message]
2005-07-17 22:38 ` Harald Welte

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