From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The glorious NFCT "none" helper
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 17:47:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDA8184.3060407@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDA6F53.9060809@trash.net>
On 23/05/11 16:29, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 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?
Indeed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 15:47 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 ` The glorious NFCT "none" helper Patrick McHardy
2011-05-23 15:47 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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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