From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@chello.at>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] conntrack: man: Add description of tables dying and unconfirmed.
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 12:27:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160408102703.GA2909@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160408101921.GD2142@salvia>
On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 12:19:21PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 08:31:42PM +0200, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
> > +.PP
> > +The tables "dying" and "unconfirmed" are basically only useful for debugging purposes.
> > +Under normal operation, it is hard to see entries in any of them.
> > +There are corner cases, where it is valid to see entries in the
> > +unconfirmed table:
> > +1) when packets that are enqueued via nfqueue, or
> > +2) when conntrackd runs in event reliable mode.
BTW, I have reworded this:
"The tables "dying" and "unconfirmed" are basically only useful for
debugging purposes. Under normal operation, it is hard to see entries
in any of them. There are corner cases, where it is valid to see
entries in the unconfirmed table, eg. when packets that are enqueued
via nfqueue, and the dying table, eg. when conntrackd runs in event
reliable mode."
Actually, you can see entries in the dying table when conntrackd
reliable event mode is on, instead of the unconfirmed table.
Sorry about that.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-08 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-07 18:31 [PATCH 0/5] conntrack: documentation updates Mart Frauenlob
2016-04-07 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] conntrack: add --proto to usage output Mart Frauenlob
2016-04-08 10:17 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-04-07 18:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] conntrack: man: add --protonum option Mart Frauenlob
2016-04-07 18:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] conntrack: show --src and --dst options in usage output Mart Frauenlob
2016-04-08 10:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-04-07 18:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] conntrack: man: add options --src and --dst Mart Frauenlob
2016-04-08 10:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-04-07 18:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] conntrack: man: Add description of tables dying and unconfirmed Mart Frauenlob
2016-04-08 10:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-04-08 10:27 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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