From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: libnetfilter_queue and libnetfilter_conntrack API questions Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: <47FCDA80.10005@netfilter.org> References: <47FCCD6C.6050409@gmail.com> <47FCD6AA.8030205@netfilter.org> <47FCD84A.7030400@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Mader , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:39712 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753953AbYDIPCl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:02:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47FCD84A.7030400@trash.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers