
The combination of NAT and helpers may produce TCP sequence adjustments. In failover setups, this information needs to be replicated in order to achieve a successful recovery of mangled, related connections. This patch is particularly useful for conntrackd, see: http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/conntrack-tools/ Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>