Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Kill unreplied conntracks by ICMP errors

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:52:02PM +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Indeed. You can configure those two NATs to make them more
> > hole-punching friendly by dropping UDP packets to local closed ports,
> > so that conntrack entry won't be created.
> 
> Yes. But it requires the explicit configuration. Why not make it work
> by default, although it may fail in some situation? Less is better
> than none, isn't it?

With this patch, an ICMP destination unreachable - fragmentation
needed coming after a big UDP packet will trigger the removal of the
UDP conntrack entry, that should not happen.
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