How To Install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Rocky Linux 8. libnetfilter_cttimeout is Timeout policy tuning for Netfilter/conntrack

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Rocky Linux 8.

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnetfilter_cttimeout.

Install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libnetfilter_cttimeout

libnetfilter_cttimeout Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/0c2c923e3a6be1ef06459ebf8f43fda823b846
/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/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/686a75ae41f65dce94469100cdd41483f27f92
/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

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.