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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] COLO Proxy Module
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:19:05 +0200
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On 30.06, Li Zhijian wrote:
> |ping...
> 
> and i have another question:
> can i add a new |||nf_ct_ext_id simply without touching the exiting kernel
> code?|

No, the kernel needs to know the highest extension ID in order to
allocate space for the offsets.

> in order to support COLO-Proxy, i need a extra nf_ct_ext_id called
> "NF_CT_EXT_COLO"
> to store some message of COLO related. This message can help COLO-Proxy to
> buffer packet and compare packet for each connection.
> 
> Thanks
> Li Zhijian

Cheers,
Patrick