Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:15:47 +0200 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12: connection tracking broken? |
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Bart De Schuymer wrote: > Op ma, 20-06-2005 te 04:45 +0200, schreef Patrick McHardy: > >> Bart, can you explain why the hooks are defered please? > > This is done so that iptables knows which bridge port the output device > is, using the iptables physdev match.
In which cases is this necessary? AFAICT the output device is determined in br_handle_frame_finish() for a normally bridged packet.
> Can't you release the conntrack reference with a function registered on > the POSTROUTING hook with a prio higher than nat POSTROUTING (or > something like that)?
We would have to hold the reference while the packet is queued at the device for the bridge case, which we want to avoid.
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