From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@inl.fr>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Patch: add id to libnetfilter_conntrack XML export
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:45:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <459E6489.9070307@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701051427.37273.victor.stinner@inl.fr>
Victor Stinner wrote:
> I heard that connection identifiers may disappear. Is it true? I like unique
> identifier because it's small (only 32 bits) and easy to manipulate. It's
> hard to identify a connection without such identifier.
Indeed, it's planned to get rid of the id. We resolved that the tuple
src/dst/port-src/port-dst/l3protonum/l4protonum is enough to identify a
conntrack.
--
The dawn of the fourth age of Linux firewalling is coming; a time of
great struggle and heroic deeds -- J.Kadlecsik got inspired by J.Morris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-05 13:27 Patch: add id to libnetfilter_conntrack XML export Victor Stinner
2007-01-05 14:45 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
[not found] ` <200701051618.09855.victor.stinner@inl.fr>
2007-01-05 22:44 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2007-01-11 13:00 ` Amin Azez
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