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From: Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
Subject: Re: connbytes & 64bit counters
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:01:52 +0000
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* Krzysztof Oledzki wrote, On 28/10/06 17:48:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> It was changed to save some memory in struct ip_conntrack.
>> The idea was mainly that its only used for ctnetlink and
>> it is possible to send events before overflow. Obviously,
>> this wasn't true (besides the fact that events are unreliable).
>> Not sure what we should do about it ..
> 
> How about attached (and inlined for easy review) patch?

I prefer 64 bit counters and am going to have to put them back; so
thanks for this.

Sam