Re: Byte order for conntrack fields over netlink

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On Monday 2025-02-24 07:25, Vimal Agrawal wrote:
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>But we don't send everything from kernel to userspace in network byte
>order. Even on netlink I see some fields are sent in host byte order.

Historical oversight? I couldn't tell. It certainly makes it harder
to send netlink packets to a different host (not that such is done
often in the first place, but you never know).

Changing it is not easy either because now everybody expects that field
to be wrong.




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