From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Sven Wandersleb <sven.wandersleb@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: bidirectional ip_conntrack_irc
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:11:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C5D6FB.5070303@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dc54d760601101707k1971896dx600e15af5b209a1e@mail.gmail.com>
Sven Wandersleb wrote:
>>>is there any Plans to get ip_conntrack_irc working in both directions?
>>>Its sad to have connections called NEW, if in fact they are RELATED.
>>
>>What do you mean by "both directions"?
>
>
> ip_conntrack_irc only tracks my DCC connections when i send files to
> others on irc. This is necessary because there needs to be a port on
> my NAT forwarded to my computer so that the otherone can connect.
>
> If i receive a file from another user its not necesarry to open any
> ports, so this is ignored by ip_conntrack_irc. Yet the connection is
> (or imho should be considered) related to the main irc connection.
Ah, I see now, the helpers ignores packets in the other direction.
I'm going to look into if its easily possible to change this.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-30 17:11 bidirectional ip_conntrack_irc Sven Wandersleb
2006-01-03 12:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-01-11 1:07 ` Sven Wandersleb
2006-01-12 4:11 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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