kernel: CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=y

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Sat May 14 17:02:03 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> It used to be a module, but was converted to built-in as we were always
> loading it in the network scripts.  A lot of the decisions made in
> those '5 second boot' days seem a bit boneheaded in hindsight.
> For f16, we should do a good re-review of such decisions, and decide what
> makes sense and what doesn't, and where possible fix the startup scripts
> instead of working around them.
> 

Especially given the push by certain people to drop the firewall by
default, so conntrack wouldn't even be loaded in a multitude of cases.


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