From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [RFC,ANNOUNCE] conntrack daemon (stateful replication) Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:40:50 +0200 Message-ID: <448569C2.1070900@netfilter.org> References: <447A1FB7.5080709@netfilter.org> <55064.192.168.33.2.1148887569.squirrel@mail.inl.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Harald Welte , Netfilter Development Mailinglist , Patrick McHardy Return-path: To: Eric Leblond In-Reply-To: <55064.192.168.33.2.1148887569.squirrel@mail.inl.fr> 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 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. > > > That sounds good ! > > >>- Support for classical Primary/Backup settings > > ... > >>- install libnfnetlink and libnetfilter_conntrack from SVN (and apply >>the patch available in doc/) > > > 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.