Re: state match is obsolete 1.4.17

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On Tuesday 2013-01-15 06:09, Nick Edwards wrote:

>WARNING: The state match is obsolete. Use conntrack instead.
>
>Getting these errors since upgrading to 1.4.17

It is a warning, not an error. (An error would not let use you
the command at all.)

>Am I right in assuming that :
>iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
>must now become :
>iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
>or does that not do the same thing?

state is a redundant subset of conntrack (the latter was introduced around
Linux 2.5.32) and shall go away.
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