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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The glorious NFCT "none" helper
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:29:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDA6F53.9060809@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305757266-8730-1-git-send-email-jengelh@medozas.de>

On 19.05.2011 00:21, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hej,
> 
> 
> While working with a customer setup, I came up with this funny idea
> of plugging a no-op NFCT helper in to workaround some nfct_ftp
> problem. Besides that, it may also be used to simply skip helping and
> save cycles. See the patch's message for details - I'd love to hear
> something about it.
> 
> (NB: nf_nat_ftp was loaded, but not used when connecting between netA
> and netB.)

Wouldn't a flag to the CT target to skip the helper lookup work as well?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 22:21 The glorious NFCT "none" helper Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-18 22:21 ` [PATCH] netfilter: the "none" conntrack helper module Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-23 14:29 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-05-23 15:47   ` The glorious NFCT "none" helper Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-05-23 15:59     ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-23 16:13       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-05-24  7:06         ` Patrick McHardy
2011-05-24 19:03           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-06-07 10:23             ` Patrick McHardy
2011-06-07 11:09               ` Patrick McHardy

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