how to program a conntrack module

[S. Shore]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Fai Yip wrote:
<snip>
> tcphelp.tuple.dst.protonum = IPPROTO_TCP;
> tcphelp.tuple.dst.u.tcp.port = htons(80);
> tcphelp.mask.dst.protonum = 0xFFFF;
> tcphelp.mask.dst.u.tcp.port = 0xFFFF;
> tcphelp.help = tcp_help;
<snip>
> Did I¡@miss anything which is needed to trigger the tcp_help function????

This confused me quite a bit too. Change it to this:

tcphelp.tuple.dst.protonum = IPPROTO_TCP;
tcphelp.tuple.src.u.tcp.port = htons(80);
tcphelp.mask.dst.protonum = 0xFFFF;
tcphelp.mask.src.u.tcp.port = 0xFFFF;
tcphelp.help = tcp_help;

.. and it will work. I don't know why it's like this either. Perhaps
someone can explain why setting the src tcp port in the tuple would be
necessary for matching packets with that destination.


Scottie Shore <sshore@escape.ca>
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