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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: conntrack -E -i not allowed?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:29:47 +0100
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To: Alan Ezust <alan.ezust@presinet.com>
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Alan Ezust wrote:
> We need to be able to determine when we get an UPDATE or a DISCONNECT, which 
> connections they correspond to. I assumed that was the purpose of the CT id.

The purpose was to uniquely identify a connection but we currenlty 
assume that the tuple {src, portsrc, dst, portdst, l3protonum, protonum} 
is enough.

> Why are you removing it? 

http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2005-June/019923.html

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