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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Follow packets in rules
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:53:10 +0200
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Samuel Jean wrote:
> There was the TRACE target born for this purpose a couple years ago.
> 
> http://svn.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/patch-o-matic-ng/linux-2.6.11/TRACE/?rev=3680
> 
> It sure will require a bit of hacking for recent kernels.
> 
> Pablo, Patrick --
> 
> Is this an interesting feature that worths merging in mainline, or
> patch-o-matic at least ?


It would be interesting for the kernel if it can be done in a
non-intrusive way. I can't remember what the old patches exactly
did, but I believe it was kind of a hack.