netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: make bridge-nf-call-*tables default configurable

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Message-ID: <20090630170027.GA22691@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:00:27 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: make bridge-nf-call-*tables default
	configurable

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 05:27:47PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 
> However, because nf_conntrack introduces an skb_orphan(), it is now
> recommended that bridge-nf-call-iptables be disabled completely so as
> to ensure features like TUNSETSNDBUF work as expected.

Patrick, does conntrack ever make sense for bridging? Perhaps
we should get rid of that completely?

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