From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/38] netns ct: NOTRACK in netns Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:25:10 +0200 Message-ID: <48C12526.90501@trash.net> References: <20080821220432.GT31136@x200.localdomain> <48C012B8.10606@trash.net> <20080905025838.GA2789@x200.localdomain> <48C11918.8020508@trash.net> <48C11DF5.9040207@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:56759 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752441AbYIEMZN (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:25:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48C11DF5.9040207@netfilter.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: >>>> I think you could avoid this mess by using a struct nf_conntrack >>>> for the untracked conntrack instead of struct nf_conn. It shouldn't >>>> make any difference since its ignored anyways. >>> Ewww, can I? >> I hope so :) A different possiblity suggest by Pablo some time ago >> would be to mark untracked packets in skb->nfctinfo and not >> attach a conntrack at all. > > Indeed, I remember that :). I left that patch of the table time ago [1]. > There's a nf_reset call missing as Patrick said at that time. I can > recover it if you like the idea. I think that would be a good idea.