[ovs-dev] [PATCH] conntrack: Fix conntrack new state

Yi-Hung Wei yihung.wei at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 21:11:46 UTC 2020


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:42 AM Roni Bar Yanai <roniba at mellanox.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Yi-Hung,
>
> From the man page, it looks like the +est is the result of committing action and not related to the TCP state machine itself.
> I'm aware that this is not how it works in kernel conntrack, if you want to align both , the description might need an update.
>
>         new (0x01)
>                      A new connection. Set to 1 if this is an uncommitted con‐
>                      nection.
>
>               est (0x02)
>                      Part of an existing connection. Set to 1  if  this  is  a
>                      committed connection.
>
Hi Roni,

Thanks for bringing this up. I will send a patch to update the documentation.

Thanks,

-Yi-Hung


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