From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: netfilter 15/29: nf_conntrack: connection tracking helper name
 persistent aliases
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:33:31 +0100
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2008-11-27 17:15, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>    
>>    This patch adds the macro MODULE_ALIAS_NFCT_HELPER that defines a
>>    way to provide generic and persistent aliases for the connection
>>    tracking helpers.
> 
> I wonder a bit. iptables is fine with loading ipt_%s (mapped to xt_%s),
> but conntrack requires an nfct-help-%s namespace and cannot use
> nf_conntrack_%s?
> Of course it makes sense to use a separate namespace - especially
> in light of the nf_conntrack_ prefix used by both helpers and
> protos, but I'm still asking.
>

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