netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: remove "no conntrack!"

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1101131502240.25211@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:02:38 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: remove "no conntrack!"

On Thursday 2011-01-13 14:38, Eric Dumazet wrote:

>Le jeudi 13 janvier 2011 à 12:54 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso a écrit :
>
>> But printing this does not provide any useful information. The first
>> packet that does not belong to the cluster node that has received the
>> packet, or the first invalid packet, will trigger this.
>> 
>> Moreover, this confuses users since they can do nothing if they receive
>> this message.
>> 
>> Moreover, this target should be supersedes by the cluster match, which
>> has been there for quite some time (it's also more flexible).
>
>Now you mentioned it, cluster match is not as flexible right now,
>its hashing is on source_ip only.

I think in that case, xt_cluster should be improved rather
than an old module.
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