Subject: Re: [PATCH] NETFILTER module xt_hmark new target for HASH MARK

From: Hans Schillstrom <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 18:40:36 +0100

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Mvh
Hasse Schillstrom
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On Thursday, February 03, 2011 17:32:07 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 2011-02-03 17:08, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> >>> Hm, this is actually not straight forward to implement, you'll have to
> >>> use hook functions to avoid the module dependencies with conntrack and
> >>> that's pretty annoying.
> >>>
> >>> I don't come up with a good solution for this.
> >> 
> >> If it loads conntrack always, there is the option to shovel it
> >> into xt_connmark.c.
> >
> >the problem is that Hans wants this not to depend on conntrack always.
> 
> Well you porbably won't get around the nf_conntrack module dependency,
> but conntrack can still be disabled through CT --notrack
> if one does not like the runtime cost.
> 

If you do put this in front of a bunch of load balancers, 
there is probably a lot of traffic :-)

So that's the reason why I don't want do depend upon conntrack.