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diff --git a/network/conntrack-tools/README b/network/conntrack-tools/README index 8802bc2aa9..207278f5b5 100644 --- a/network/conntrack-tools/README +++ b/network/conntrack-tools/README @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ -The conntrack-tools are a set of userspace tools that allow system -administrators to interact with the Connection Tracking System (the -module that provides stateful packet inspection for iptables). The -conntrack-tools include the userspace daemon conntrackd and the -command line interface conntrack. +The conntrack-tools are a set of tools targeted at system administrators. +They are conntrack, the userspace command line interface, and conntrackd, +the userspace daemon. The tool conntrack provides a full featured interface +that is intended to replace the old /proc/net/ip_conntrack interface. Using +conntrack, you can view and manage the in-kernel connection tracking state +table from userspace. On the other hand, conntrackd covers the specific +aspects of stateful firewalls to enable highly available scenarios, and can +be used as statistics collector as well. |