netdev - Re: [PATCH 20/38] netns ct: NOTRACK in netns

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Date:	Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:08:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
cc:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/38] netns ct: NOTRACK in netns


On Friday 2008-09-05 08:25, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> > I hope so :) A different possiblity suggest by Pablo some time ago
>> > would be to mark untracked packets in skb->nfctinfo and not
>> > attach a conntrack at all.
>> 
>> Indeed, I remember that :). I left that patch of the table time ago [1].
>> There's a nf_reset call missing as Patrick said at that time. I can
>> recover it if you like the idea.
>
> I think that would be a good idea.

Would that work? Right now, a ct==NULL indicates the 'INVALID' state,
and overloading it with 'UNTRACKED' does not seem nice.
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