On Thursday 2025-02-20 07:03, Vimal Agrawal wrote: >Hi netfilter team, > >Why are all conntrack related fields converted from host to network >byte order by kernel before sending it to userspace over netlink and >again from network to host by >conntrack tools ( even though most fields are not related to network)? >I am referring to packet exchange during commands e.g. conntrack -L >etc. > >Is there any good reason for these conversions? To be consistent with the rest of networking (IP addresses are also passed MSB-first), which goes back to RFC 1700 and https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt .
