Re: libnetfilter_queue and libnetfilter_conntrack API questions

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> The events do not include the ID, this is how it goes as for now.
>> Actually I'm not a big fun of the ID.
>>
>> @Patrick: I don't remember exactly the reason why we decided to keep the
>> ID there, and if we have decided to do so, it seems inconsistent to me
>> not to include it in the events.
> 
> 
> I agree. I guess the reason why its not sent on events is that it
> was originally only introduced (IIRC, I might be confusing it with
> the ordered list on second thought) for dumps.
> 
> The reason why we kept it at all is that people are already using
> it as unique identifier, we only changed the uniqueness to mean
> "unique at any given point in time", but not over time. I guess
> the logical thing to do would be to also include it in events.
> I know some people are using patches to do this already.

Well, I'm not big fun of reducing the limited bandwidth of netlink but
let's inserted it. I have a couple of patches here for ctnetlink. I can
include one for this.

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