Re: How to obtain process ID that created a packet

[Jan Engelhardt]

>In current 2.6 kernel, net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_owner.c:checkentry() :
>
>        if (info->match & (IPT_OWNER_PID|IPT_OWNER_SID|IPT_OWNER_COMM)) {
>                printk("ipt_owner: pid, sid and command matching "
>                       "not supported anymore\n");
>                return 0;
>        }
>
>So... even netfilter, breaking backward compatibility, does not support
>pid match anymore...

Because they do not work on SMP. That's the reason they are disabled.



Jan Engelhardt
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