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From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
To: Jason Sipula <alupis1@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How are ct helper to be configured with NFT ?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 07:49:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561C9B73.9020509@c-s.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJCcFsip+zxLgOTjHfeWGug+up0+T3LM4Tb9+9uvvr0KDcBjMQ@mail.gmail.com>



Le 12/10/2015 20:11, Jason Sipula a écrit :
> Maybe we're talking about different things? I had read in some places
> that linux kernel version 3.13 had the core of nftables merged.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nftables
>
> I do not know anything about ct helper, however.

"ct helper" stands for conntrack helper. It is some part of netfilter 
that helps conntrack
to track complex streams like FTP or TFTP streams where the conntrack 
needs to identify and keep
track of the data stream associated to the signalling stream

Christophe

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-13  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-26 18:08 How are ct helper to be configured with NFT ? leroy christophe
2014-12-05  7:27 ` leroy christophe
2014-12-05 10:38   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-02-25 12:16     ` leroy christophe
2015-02-25 15:58       ` Jason Sipula
2015-10-12 18:06         ` christophe leroy
2015-10-12 18:11           ` Jason Sipula
2015-10-13  5:49             ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
2015-10-12 18:21           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-03-02 18:14             ` christophe leroy

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