From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Fabian Hugelshofer <hugelshofer2006@gmx.ch>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/3] conntrack event kernel issues
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:03:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48369678.7000905@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211447573.6878.36.camel@pumper.lan.luxnet.ch>
Fabian Hugelshofer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I plan to use netfilter conntrack events to count the number of
> connections which timed out without having received a reply. To make
> this as efficient as possible I only want to monitor destroy events. I
> have noticed three issues with that and wrote patches to solve them.
> They follow in separate mails.
>
> Please let me know what you think about them and if they could be useful
> for other people as well.
>
> patch1: export ct->status on all conntrack events
> patch2: set SEEN_REPLY before destroying a conntrack on TCP RST
> patch3: new status flag SEEN_RELATED
I can't imagine other uses for this than the one you described,
especially for 2 and 3. Patch 3 also adds code in a hot path,
so unless someone can present good arguments in favour of these
patches, I don't really want to apply them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-22 9:12 [0/3] conntrack event kernel issues Fabian Hugelshofer
2008-05-23 10:03 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-05-23 11:32 ` Fabian Hugelshofer
2008-05-23 11:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-23 12:10 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-05-23 12:20 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-05-23 13:13 ` Fabian Hugelshofer
2008-05-25 14:57 ` Patrick McHardy
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