I gave a small presentation about a study I’ve made on connection tracking helpers. The slides are here: nfws_helper_freedom
Discussion following the speech was interesting. The main subject was automatic testing of the connection tracking helpers (as well as testing the other components). Pablo Neira Ayuso came with the idea of injecting the packet inside the kernel via a mechanism similar to NFQUEUE. This would then be easy to replay traffic. An extended discussion about the subject should take place during the week.