Re: libnetfilter_queue and libnetfilter_conntrack API questions

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> The events do not include the ID, this is how it goes as for now.
>>> Actually I'm not a big fun of the ID.
>>>
>>> @Patrick: I don't remember exactly the reason why we decided to keep the
>>> ID there, and if we have decided to do so, it seems inconsistent to me
>>> not to include it in the events.
>>
>> I agree. I guess the reason why its not sent on events is that it
>> was originally only introduced (IIRC, I might be confusing it with
>> the ordered list on second thought) for dumps.
>>
>> The reason why we kept it at all is that people are already using
>> it as unique identifier, we only changed the uniqueness to mean
>> "unique at any given point in time", but not over time. I guess
>> the logical thing to do would be to also include it in events.
>> I know some people are using patches to do this already.
> 
> Well, I'm not big fun  of reducing the limited bandwidth of netlink but
> let's inserted it. I have a couple of patches here for ctnetlink. I can
> include one for this.

Thanks Pablo.