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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: ip_conntrack fails to track Windows Vista TCP connection
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:20:58 +0200
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Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
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Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Fischer, Anna wrote:
>>>
>>>     We've had a couple of problems related to related to
>>> acknowledgement numbers in TCP conntrack, I'd suggest
>>> you check the nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c changelogs,
>>> basically everything in there should also apply to
>>> the old version.
>>>     
>>
>> Thanks for your advice. Why would the problem be in 
>> nf_conntrack_proto_tcp and not in ip_conntrack_proto_tcp?
>>   
>
> Its not of course, but nf_conntrack_proto_tcp is derived from 
> ip_conntrack_proto_tcp,
> all the bugfixes also apply to ip_conntrack_proto_tcp. 

By which I mean all the bugfixes contained in the current kernel.