Op ma, 20-06-2005 te 04:45 +0200, schreef Patrick McHardy:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Patrick McHardy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> The bridge-netfilter code defers calling of some NF_IP_* hooks to the
> >> bridge layer, when the conntrack reference is already gone, so the entry
> >
> > Why does it defer them at all? Shouldn't the fact that the device is
> > bridged be transparent to the IP layer?
>
> I couldn't figure out the reason, it seems to have something to do
> with setting up device pointers for iptables and ebtables. It looks
> like the only way to fix this problem without keeping the conntrack
> reference while packets are queued at the device is to avoid defering
> the NF_IP_* hooks. Bart, can you explain why the hooks are defered
> please?
This is done so that iptables knows which bridge port the output device
is, using the iptables physdev match.
Can't you release the conntrack reference with a function registered on
the POSTROUTING hook with a prio higher than nat POSTROUTING (or
something like that)?
cheers,
Bart
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