How To Install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Fedora 34

libnetfilter_cttimeout is Timeout policy tuning for Netfilter/conntrack Timeout policy tuning for Netfilter/conntrack

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Fedora 34.

What is `libnetfilter_cttimeout`

This infrastructure allows you to define fine-grain timeout policies per flow. Basically, from user-space, you can create timeout policy objects via nfct_timeout_alloc(), set the policy attributes, via nfct_timeout_attr_set(), and then build the ctnetlink message to communicate this new timeout policy to the kernel. libnetfilter_cttimeout 1.0.0 17.fc34 x86_64 23 k libnetfilter_cttimeout-1.0.0-17.fc34.src.rpm fedora Timeout policy tuning for Netfilter/conntrack http GPLv2+ This infrastructure allows you to define fine-grain timeout policies per flow. Basically, from user-space, you can create timeout policy objects via nfct_timeout_alloc(), set the policy attributes, via nfct_timeout_attr_set(), and then build the ctnetlink message to communicate this new timeout policy to the kernel.

We can use yum or dnf to install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnetfilter_cttimeout.

Install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libnetfilter_cttimeout using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libnetfilter_cttimeout

Install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libnetfilter_cttimeout using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libnetfilter_cttimeout

How To Uninstall libnetfilter_cttimeout on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the libnetfilter_cttimeout package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libnetfilter_cttimeout

libnetfilter_cttimeout Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/9583534de45595a6a3cb14ddad01ba478c9aed
/usr/lib/libnetfilter_cttimeout.so.1
/usr/lib/libnetfilter_cttimeout.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/7016d0462dec553d915a6dfae8852980098830
/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_cttimeout.so.1
/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_cttimeout.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout/README

References

[libnetfilter_cttimeout website](http://netfilter.org http://netfilter.org)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.