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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Edison Figueira <efjgrub@gmail.com>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CLUSTERIP: no conntrack error
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:09:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4D6CDB.2060900@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1007261300020.323@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

On 26/07/10 13:00, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2010-07-26 12:35, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> On 25/07/10 18:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 2010-07-14 00:18, Edison Figueira wrote:
>>>
>>>> I configured CLUSTERIP in two boxes to make balancing proxy, and
>>>> apparently it all worked but I get several messages from "CLUSTERIP:
>>>> no conntrack.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what this message means?
>>>
>>> Means packets are tagged as INVALID.
>>
>> Indeed. You have to add a rule to drop invalid packets before the CLUSTERIP
>> rule to avoid this message.
>
> Hm, couldn't we just drop the message? There are many other components
> in Netfilter that silently bail out when nf_ct_get returns NULL, like
> xt_connlimit.

Yes, it's a good idea for the short run.

In the long run, we should deprecate CLUSTERIP since it has been 
superseded by the cluster match. However, I wanted to document the new 
approach before doing so (I found no spare time to do it).

IIRC, the message is only displayed if netfilter debugging is enabled.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-26 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-13 22:18 CLUSTERIP: no conntrack error Edison Figueira
2010-07-25 16:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-07-26 10:35   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-07-26 11:00     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-07-26 11:09       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2010-07-26 11:13         ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-07-26 13:43           ` Edison Figueira
2010-07-26 17:05           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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