On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 03:30:58PM +0200, Stéphane Veyret wrote: > This patch allows to add, list and delete expectations via nft objref > infrastructure and assigning these expectations via nft rule. > > This allows manual port triggering when no helper is defined to manage a > specific protocol. For example, if I have an online game which protocol > is based on initial connection to TCP port 9753 of the server, and where > the server opens a connection to port 9876, I can set rules as follow: > > table ip filter { > ct expectation mygame { > protocol udp; > dport 9876; > timeout 2m; > size 1; > } > > chain input { > type filter hook input priority 0; policy drop; > tcp dport 9753 ct expectation set "mygame"; > } > > chain output { > type filter hook output priority 0; policy drop; > udp dport 9876 ct status expected accept; > } > } Applied, thanks for your patience.