wok-6.x diff conntrack-tools/description.txt @ rev 25150
updated proftpd-tls (1.3.6d -> 1.3.7d)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Wed Jun 29 17:07:59 2022 +0100 (2022-06-29) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/conntrack-tools/description.txt Wed Jun 29 17:07:59 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ 1.4 +The conntrack-tools are a set of tools targeted at system administrators. 1.5 +They are conntrack, the userspace command line interface, and conntrackd, 1.6 +the userspace daemon. 1.7 +The tool conntrack provides a full featured interface that is intended 1.8 +to replace the old /proc/net/ip_conntrack interface. 1.9 +Using conntrack, you can view and manage the in-kernel connection tracking 1.10 +state table from userspace. 1.11 +On the other hand, conntrackd covers the specific aspects of stateful 1.12 +firewalls to enable highly available scenarios, and can be used as 1.13 +statistics collector as well. 1.14 + 1.15 +Since 1.2.0, the conntrack-tools includes the nfct command line utility. 1.16 +This utility only supports the nfnetlink_cttimeout by now. 1.17 +In the long run, we expect that it will replace conntrack by providing 1.18 +a syntax similar to nftables.