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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: TCPMSS is not restricted to mangle table
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:14:01 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Since the Linux kernel does not follow the old stable<->devel 
> (2.even<->2.uneven) model, every new version is allowed to
> break an older one.

Thats complete nonsense.

> On the way to restrict TCPMSS to -t mangle, the -m state
> could also be obsoleted in favor of -m conntrack.

I'm not going to restrict TCPMSS to mangle - but I'm
considering adding a warning. I also don't see a reason
to deprecate the state match, its totally trivial code
and needs a lot less memory than the conntrack match.