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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/09]: netfilter: xtables: add CT target
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:36:55 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2010-01-25 17:57, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Does anyone have an opinion on supporting specifying helper parameters?
>> I'm considering adding something like 5 generically usable u32s and have
>> helpers initialize parameters like FTP "loose" or SIP "direct_media"
>> based on those.
>>
> Is there a case where someone wants to loosen just half of their
> FTP connections? Well yes maybe there is, but anyone ever request
> it?

Not FTP specifically, SIP and H.323 would be the primary use cases.
But if the infrastructure is there anyways, we might as well add
support for FTP.