From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Shane Goulden <shane@matrixau.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip_conntrack_ftp messages
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:24:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081124152458.GA20442@linuxace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492A9DD9.1090307@trash.net>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:28:09PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
>> On Monday 24 November 2008 10:43:19 Shane Goulden wrote:
>>> 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5xen
>>>
>>> FTP is working. Is there a way to easily silence the messages?
>>
>> Not that I am aware of. Perhaps that printk (still there in latest
>> kernels) should be downgraded to a DEBUG?
>>
> Its strange that FTP is apparently working since we drop those packets.
> I'm not sure about downgrading that message, its there to inform the
> user of an exceptional action (dropping of packets within conntrack).
>
> Shane, how do you trigger those messages?
I've seen these messages when something other than FTP is utilizing
port 21. Perhaps we should have a bit in the conntrack helper which
stops looking on future packets if it doesn't see FTP traffic in the
beginning of the session?
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-24 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <31563483.01227485595724.JavaMail.shane@shane-laptop>
2008-11-24 4:15 ` ip_conntrack_ftp messages Rusty Russell
2008-11-24 12:28 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-11-24 15:24 ` Phil Oester [this message]
2008-11-24 15:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-11-24 15:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-11-24 16:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-11-24 16:23 ` Pascal Hambourg
2008-11-24 17:14 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-24 17:34 ` Patrick McHardy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20081124152458.GA20442@linuxace.com \
--to=kernel@linuxace.com \
--cc=kaber@trash.net \
--cc=netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
--cc=shane@matrixau.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).