Re: [RFC,ANNOUNCE] conntrack daemon (stateful replication)

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
>>I've been working on a pet project during the last months. Part of this
>>stuff is related with my works in the university.
>>
>>The project is called `conntrackd' that is the conntrack userspace daemon.
> 
> Interesting work (and nice featureset), I like the idea of doing this
> in userspace. IIRC Holger Eitzenberger is also working on something
> similar. Do you have performance measurements how this compares to
> ct_sync?

I'll spend tomorrow morning to do that, as soon as I get some results 
I'll post them. Hm, I didn't know that Holger was working on something 
similar, it could be nice if we can join efforts.

>>BTW, I sent a PDF file to netfilter-core but exceeded maximum size a
>>bit, could you accept it? I wrote a small article for USENIX's :LOGIN;
>>about the connection tracking system that will be released in June. I
>>can't release it for public before that date but I sent you a copy in
>>private. Although all that it contains is well known by you ;) but at
>>least have a look at the acknowledgement section.
> 
> I'd be interested, please send it to me in private. Thanks.

Done.

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