Re: [conntrack-tools PATCH v2 2/2] conntrackd: external_inject: report inject issues as warning

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On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 11:50:25AM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> In busy firewalls that run conntrackd in NOTRACK with both internal and external caches disabled,
> external_inject can get lots of traffic. In case of issues injecting or updating conntrack entries
> a log entry will be generated, the infamous inject-addX, inject-updX messages.
> 
> But there is nothing end users can do about this error message, which is purely internal. This
> patch is basically cosmetic, relaxing the message from ERROR to WARNING. The information reported
> is also extended a bit. The idea is to leave ERROR messages to issues that would *stop* or
> *prevent* conntrackd from working at all.
> 
> Another nice thing to do in the future is to rate-limit this message, which is generated in the
> data path and can easily fill log files. But ideally, the actual root cause would be fixed, and
> there would be no WARNING message reported at all, meaning that all conntrack entries are smoothly
> synced between the firewalls in the cluster. We can work on that later.

Also applied.



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