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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: NFCT ulogd pluging [was Re: [ULOGD RFC 11/30] NFCT: make reconfigurable]
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:51:23 +0100
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Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> JFYI: conntrackd also does connection tracking accounting so I'm not
> sure if ulogd should do this as well via the NFCT plugin. This looks
> like duplicated effort IMO and, as for now, conntrackd also provides
> userspace conntrack table dumping without locking the kernel via
> `conntrackd -i' which is a feature that ulogd does not provide.
>   

Mhh .. I'm not sure how that is duplicated effort, we're talking about
two different programs that do completely different things.

Locking is not an issue BTW, I have patches queued which finally
move conntrack to RCU.