From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: nf_conntrack.acct has no effect Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:57:43 +0100 Message-ID: <49BFAC57.1060702@trash.net> References: <49BE84D4.7050804@trash.net> <20090317082425.GA25491@mail.eitzenberger.org> <49BF9F7E.3090208@trash.net> <49BFA633.4010306@trash.net> <49BFAADF.9000008@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Engelhardt , pablo@netfilter.org, Netfilter Developer Mailing List To: Krzysztof Oledzki Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:48068 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751915AbZCQN5q (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:57:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: >>>> I'd say it has been long enough, but Jan raised a valid point. >>>> We can't use the Kconfig selection anymore once we remove that >>>> option, so we need a replacement to automatically enable counters. >>> >>> So loading connbytes should enable accounting automatically. Fine, it >>> is doable. But how we want to handle it WRT to NS? Should it be >>> enabled in all NameSpaces or...? >> >> Just the ones it is actually used in I'd say (i.e. in the checkentry >> function for the current namespace). > > OK, but AFAIK modules are not namespace dependly, so why only in > actually used one? This bugs me a little. But using them is namespace dependant.