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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: nf_conntrack & nf_conntrack_ipv4 are not loaded
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:07:56 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:02:38PM -0700, Gomathivinayagam Muthuvinayagam wrote:
> The modules nf_conntrack & nf_conntrack_ipv4 are not loaded
> automatically in ulogd.
> It was posted in earlier forums that some code will be written to do this.
> Was there a patch released for the same?

There's already a patch that will be available in 3.6.

It will autoload nf_conntrack and nf_conntrack_netlink.

You still have to load nf_conntrack_ipv4 yourself, there's no way to
know what IPvX tracker you require from the conntrack events
subscription.