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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: The glorious NFCT "none" helper
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:29:39 +0200
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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?