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

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

Eric Leblond wrote:
>>The project is called `conntrackd' that is the conntrack userspace daemon.
>>- Stateful replication: the daemon keeps a cache of internal events via
>>libnetfilter_conntrack and a cache of external event received from the
>>other node.
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> 
> That sounds good !
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>>- Support for classical Primary/Backup settings
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> ...
> 
>>- install libnfnetlink and libnetfilter_conntrack from SVN (and apply
>>the patch available in doc/)
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> A quick look at the patch seems to show that API has changed again :-(
> 
> Userspace handling of conntrack is a GREAT thing and conntrackd is one of
> the elements that put it on the top of the great Netfilter things. But, it
> definitively needs a fixed API because all related projects are at the
> same point : "use svn and patch it!"

I missed this email. Eric, this is still a work in progress, and I 
didn't ever apply that patch. The new patch included in conntrackd (yet 
unapplied) doesn't change the API. I understand your concerns about the API.