netdev - Re: [Cake] [PATCH net-next v15 4/7] sch_cake: Add NAT awareness to packet classifier

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Message-Id: <20180523.163910.2061435036559770900.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 23 May 2018 16:39:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     chromatix99@...il.com
Cc:     toke@...e.dk, cake@...ts.bufferbloat.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cake] [PATCH net-next v15 4/7] sch_cake: Add NAT awareness to
 packet classifier

From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 23:33:04 +0300

> Now I'm *really* confused.
> 
> Are you saying that the user has to set up their own conntrack
> mechanism using extra userspace commands?  Because complicating the
> setup process that way runs directly counter to Cake's design
> philosophy.

I mean not anything filtering or firewall related.

We have a full flow dissector in the networking core, which often runs
on every RX packet anyways.  Record what we need and use it on egress
after NAT has occurred.