Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:16:34 -0600: > >>marked as related by ftp helper module (-m helper --helper ftp). > > Is that "helper" identical with the ip_conntrack_ftp module or is this something > different? "Helper" option means that particular helper module marked the packet as related. In this case that module would be ip_conntrack_ftp indeed. Note that the option does not trigger loading of the module. It simply checks what placed packet into related state.