From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] first conntrack ID must be 1 not 2 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:14:21 +0100 Message-ID: <43F4426D.9060807@trash.net> References: <43EFF1F0.1090701@netfilter.org> <20060213112028.GU4601@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <43F438F5.8070607@trash.net> <43F43FA9.4000906@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Harald Welte , Netfilter Development Mailinglist , Pablo Neira Ayuso , Yasuyuki Kozakai Return-path: To: Jozsef Kadlecsik In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > >>Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: >> >>>Couldn't the id be simply equal to the jiffies when creating the conntrack >>>entry? (And adding time_after/before when comparing ids, of course.) >> >>We can create more than one entry per jiffy, so that wouldn't be unique >>anymore. > > > (jiffies, tuples) would be unique even in that case. Thats true. But what is the advantage over using the counter?