[PATCH 4/4] first conntrack ID must be 1 not 2

Harald Welte laforge at netfilter.org
Sat Apr 1 21:31:38 CEST 2006


On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:44:56PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> Me neither :) I was just pointing out the idea behind the ID, not
> necessarily condoning it. After discussing it with Rusty in Sevilla,
> it became clear that we can provide guarantees similar to filesystems
> without it, which seems to be good enough. So I have absolutely
> nothing against removing it. In fact, IIRC the last discussion
> stopped after I had sent a patch to remove it. I need to dig out that
> patch again :)

I didn't contribute to any of these discussions anymore, since I already
made my opinion on this quite clear very early on:  I don't have any
problem whatsoever with non-uniqueness ;)

So if there's now a majority of people who want to delete the ID: Go for
it :)

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge at netfilter.org>                 http://netfilter.org/
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