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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: conntrack-utils needs to autoload netlink
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:45:03 +0200
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Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> I wrote a patch time ago to load nf_conntrack_netlink from user-space
> when `conntrack -E' is invoked. I don't see a way to fix this in the
> kernel code, so that's the only idea that I can find to fix this
> problem. Still, I don't like too much the idea of doing the autoload
> from user-space.

You could add a callback for multicast-binds and have that callback
load the nfnetlink-specific module.