Re: [PATCH] netfilter: scheduled removal of CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2010-05-31 17:24, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Tobias Doerffel wrote:
>>> Removal of the CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT was already scheduled for 2.6.29,
>>> therefore remove it now and set nf_conntrack.acct depending on
>>> CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNBYTES.
>> This has already been discussed multiple times. The connbytes
>> match needs accounting, so it needs to enable it when the first
>> rule containing a connbytes match is added. This needs to be
>> done in the namespace where the rule is added.
> 
> If it is done as late as rule insertion, connbytes might match (or
> not - and thus be a problem) when there are still CTs around without
> a counter tuple. Hm.

Yeah, we also discussed that part, but we can't do any better.
The alternative for people is to manually enable it when loading
conntrack.
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