Re: [RFC PATCH] ctnetlink port to nf_conntrack take #1

[Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>]

Harald Welte wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:22:09AM +0900, Yasuyuki KOZAKAI wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think we can generalize layer 3 protocol handling more, by introducing
>>nfattr_to_tuple/tuple_to_nfattr to l3proto modules like proto.
> 
> I agree.

Fine with it. I expect to send a new patch before the weekend.

>>And it would be great if {ip,nf}_conntrack_netlink.c can be unified.
>>But currently I don't have good idea to do that in clear way, and without
>>extensibility limitation of nf_conntrack_netlink. I'll think about this more.
>>How do you think ?
> 
> I don't think it's really worth the effort.  we already have two
> instances of connection tracking code.  
> 
> ip_conntrack will go sooner or later, so we should rather spend time on
> important features such as userspace conntrack helpers and NAT for
> nf_conntrack

Same feeling.

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Pablo