From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: ip_conntrack_ftp messages Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:28:09 +0100 Message-ID: <492A9DD9.1090307@trash.net> References: <31563483.01227485595724.JavaMail.shane@shane-laptop> <200811241445.56544.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Shane Goulden , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Rusty Russell Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:62198 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbYKXM2T (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:28:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200811241445.56544.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? > > if (net_ratelimit()) > printk("conntrack_ftp: partial %s %u+%u\n", > search[dir][i].pattern, > ntohl(th->seq), datalen); 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?