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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: nf_conntrack.acct has no effect
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:02:54 +0100
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Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:56:52PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> Currently the default is set based on the old config option.
>> When unset, no acct-extend is allocated for *new* conntracks.
>> The old ones that do have an acct-extend are still displayed.
> 
> I think the current implementation is unfortunate, because the
> connbytes match auto-selects CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT, and you end up having
> the message always and can't get rid of it other than patching
> it out.

Its only a compat option, it will get removed soon. 2.6.30 or 2.6.31
I'd say.