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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: some way to use NF_CT_EXPECT_PERMANENT in userspace
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:46:59 +0200
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To: wang feng <feng.wangs@gmail.com>
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wang feng wrote:
> Hello,
> from api the attributes we can set for expectation only inclusive
> src,dst ip,port, and timeout, but from the kernel code like infunction
> "nf_ct_find_expectation" there is  also a structure named
> "nf_conntrac_expect" with flags settings with NF_CT_EXPECT_PERMANENT
> which enable a permanent expectation, can the userland api in some
> ways to enable this feature too?

No, we currently don't have the necessary attribute to set expectation
flags. Should be trivial to add though.