On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
It used to be a module, but was converted to built-in as we were
always
loading it in the network scripts. A lot of the decisions made in
those '5 second boot' days seem a bit boneheaded in hindsight.
For f16, we should do a good re-review of such decisions, and decide what
makes sense and what doesn't, and where possible fix the startup scripts
instead of working around them.
Especially given the push by certain people to drop the firewall by
default, so conntrack wouldn't even be loaded in a multitude of cases.