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

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Message-ID: <20090701090736.GA32306@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:07:36 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: make bridge-nf-call-*tables default configurable

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:57:02AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> People are apparently using this for stateful tracking and even
> NAT on bridges, so I'm afraid we can't get rid of it completely.

I think we should print out a nasty message warning the user
if we detect that conntrack is used by bridge netfilter for the
first time.  If the user persists then at least they can't sue
us for not warning them :)

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