How To Install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 is Timeout policy tuning for Netfilter/conntrack

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64`

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 to install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64.

Install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64

How To Uninstall libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64

libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_cttimeout.so.1
/usr/lib64/libnetfilter_cttimeout.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout-1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout-1.0.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libnetfilter_cttimeout-1.0.0/README

References

libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnetfilter_cttimeout.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.