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LCE: Challenges for Linux networking

LCE: Challenges for Linux networking

Posted Nov 8, 2012 12:48 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: LCE: Challenges for Linux networking by rusty
Parent article: LCE: Challenges for Linux networking

>Figuring out which existing connections would be NATed differently and resetting them might be a nice twist

I do not think you can actually solve this "twist". The fact that NFCT mappings - and thus TCP tuples - do not change when the nat table is changed could be considered a feature in itself. Sort of like an RCU for tuples.


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