From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>,
pablo@netfilter.org,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nf_conntrack.acct has no effect
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:54:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BFABB3.9020903@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0903171450330.14581@bizon.gios.gov.pl>
Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
>> The implication is that xt_connbytes will not do the right thing
>> anymore as soon as user accounting is turned off, either by flipping
>> the sysctl value or deactivating the kconfig option. That is not
>> good.
>
> The sysctl is not going to be removed and you can still set the initial
> value with the proper kernel/module option. I fail to see the problem here.
Its mainly a usability thing. Its not really obvious that the
match will be entirely without effect if you don't set some sysctl.
And since we can assume that anyone using the connbytes match
intends for it to have some effect, we might as well enable it
automatically.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-17 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-16 16:53 nf_conntrack.acct has no effect Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-16 16:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-16 18:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-17 8:24 ` Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-17 13:02 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 13:13 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2009-03-17 13:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 13:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 13:50 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2009-03-17 13:51 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 13:55 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2009-03-17 13:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 14:18 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2009-03-17 14:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 14:36 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2009-03-17 14:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 13:11 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2009-03-17 13:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-17 13:52 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2009-03-17 13:54 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-17 14:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-17 14:41 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 15:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-18 4:32 ` Patrick McHardy
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