On Dec 17 2007 13:20, Phil Oester wrote: >On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:06:16AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> I think the patch is useful, but I wonder how long it will take until >> people want to override timeouts for other connection states. I'm >> also looking for a way to pass parameters for new connections to >> helpers (most of the things that are currently module parameters), >> so maybe we could generalize this to a conntrack parameter target? > >In thinking about this, it seems like a HELPER target would be >useful, for instance if some random FTP server ran on a non-standard >port and we wanted the FTP helper to be used. Something like: > > -s X -p 210 -j HELPER --helper ftp BTW, the helper code is said to already do that (man iptables): --helper ftp-2121 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
