From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: libnetfilter_queue and libnetfilter_conntrack API questions Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:07:48 +0200 Message-ID: <47FCDBC4.2040402@trash.net> References: <47FCCD6C.6050409@gmail.com> <47FCD6AA.8030205@netfilter.org> <47FCD84A.7030400@trash.net> <47FCDA80.10005@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Mader , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:50226 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752620AbYDIPHv (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:07:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47FCDA80.10005@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > 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. Thanks Pablo.