where is ip_conntrack

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#1

Hello!

I started module for conntrack

# modprobe -l | grep conntrack
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_dccp.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_gre.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_udplite.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_amanda.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ftp.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netbios_ns.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_pptp.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sane.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tftp.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_slp.ko
kernel/net/netfilter/xt_conntrack.ko
kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ipv4.ko
kernel/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ipv6.ko

but I can’t find where is file:

/proc/net/ip_conntrac

Is in OpenSUSE that file in different place/with different name?

Works for me command


conntrack -L

but I would like to use some tail for that file or something like that.

#2

I found that:


       conntrack  provides a full featured userspace interface to the netfil-
       ter connection tracking system that is intended  to  replace  the  old
       /proc/net/ip_conntrack  interface.  This  tool  can be used to search,
       list, inspect and maintain the connection tracking  subsystem  of  the
       Linux kernel.

but why it is changed…?

#3

On 07/26/2011 10:06 PM, rysic wrote:
>
> but why it is changed…?

i don’t know the exact answer, but i do know that stuff changes all the
time…some say it is progress…some say it is just change…

is there no change log or other documentation explaining why it changed?

if not i suggest yours is a question for the conntrack developer or
forum…(unless a conntrack guru [that would not be me] happens by in
the openSUSE forum)

maybe somewhere in here is the answer to your question:
http://www.netfilter.org/projects/conntrack-tools/index.html

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DD
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#4

Incidentally things called ip_* are now renamed nf_* (nf for netfilter). So the module is nf_conntrack. Why the change from a virtual file to a utility program, you’d have to investigate the history.