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David S. Miller
db2bf2476b Merge branch 'lvs-next-2.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/lvs-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/netfilter/Kconfig
2008-10-08 14:26:36 -07:00
KOVACS Krisztian
e84392707e netfilter: iptables TPROXY target
The TPROXY target implements redirection of non-local TCP/UDP traffic to local
sockets. Additionally, it's possible to manipulate the packet mark if and only
if a socket has been found. (We need this because we cannot use multiple
targets in the same iptables rule.)

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch.bme.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:12 +02:00
KOVACS Krisztian
136cdc71fd netfilter: iptables socket match
Add iptables 'socket' match, which matches packets for which a TCP/UDP
socket lookup succeeds.

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch.bme.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:12 +02:00
KOVACS Krisztian
9ad2d745a2 netfilter: iptables tproxy core
The iptables tproxy core is a module that contains the common routines used by
various tproxy related modules (TPROXY target and socket match)

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch.bme.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:12 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
e948b20a71 netfilter: rename ipt_recent to xt_recent
Like with other modules (such as ipt_state), ipt_recent.h is changed
to forward definitions to (IOW include) xt_recent.h, and xt_recent.c
is changed to use the new constant names.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:00 +02:00
Julius Volz
cb7f6a7b71 IPVS: Move IPVS to net/netfilter/ipvs
Since IPVS now has partial IPv6 support, this patch moves IPVS from
net/ipv4/ipvs to net/netfilter/ipvs. It's a result of:

$ git mv net/ipv4/ipvs net/netfilter

and adapting the relevant Kconfigs/Makefiles to the new path.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-10-07 08:38:24 +11:00
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki
584015727a netfilter: accounting rework: ct_extend + 64bit counters (v4)
Initially netfilter has had 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, but
it was changed in 2.6.14 to save memory. Unfortunately in-kernel 64bit counters are
still required, for example for "connbytes" extension. However, 64bit counters
waste a lot of memory and it was not possible to enable/disable it runtime.

This patch:
 - reimplements accounting with respect to the extension infrastructure,
 - makes one global version of seq_print_acct() instead of two seq_print_counters(),
 - makes it possible to enable it at boot time (for CONFIG_SYSCTL/CONFIG_SYSFS=n),
 - makes it possible to enable/disable it at runtime by sysctl or sysfs,
 - extends counters from 32bit to 64bit,
 - renames ip_conntrack_counter -> nf_conn_counter,
 - enables accounting code unconditionally (no longer depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT),
 - set initial accounting enable state based on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT
 - removes buggy IPCT_COUNTER_FILLING event handling.

If accounting is enabled newly created connections get additional acct extend.
Old connections are not changed as it is not possible to add a ct_extend area
to confirmed conntrack. Accounting is performed for all connections with
acct extend regardless of a current state of "net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct".

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-21 10:10:58 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2bc780499a [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add DCCP protocol support
Add DCCP conntrack helper. Thanks to Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
for review and testing.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-04-14 11:15:49 +02:00
Patrick McHardy
4f536522da [NETFILTER]: kill nf_sysctl.c
Since there now is generic support for shared sysctl paths, the only
remains are the net/netfilter and net/ipv4/netfilter paths. Move them
to net/netfilter/core.c and net/ipv4/netfilter.c and kill nf_sysctl.c.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:40 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
f72e25a897 [NETFILTER]: Rename ipt_iprange to xt_iprange
This patch moves ipt_iprange to xt_iprange, in preparation for adding
IPv6 support to xt_iprange.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:27 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
50c164a81f [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add rateest match
Add rate estimator match. The rate estimator match can match on
estimated rates by the RATEEST target. It supports matching on
absolute bps/pps values, comparing two rate estimators and matching
on the difference between two rate estimators.

This is what I use to route outgoing data connections from a FTP
server over two lines based on the  available bandwidth:

# estimate outgoing rates
iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j RATEEST --rateest-name eth0 \
                                                     --rateest-interval 250ms \
                                                     --rateest-ewma 0.5s
iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j RATEEST --rateest-name ppp0 \
                                                     --rateest-interval 250ms \
                                                     --rateest-ewma 0.5s

# mark based on available bandwidth
iptables -t mangle -A BALANCE -m state --state NEW \
                              -m helper --helper ftp \
                              -m rateest --rateest-delta \
                                         --rateest1 eth0 \
                                         --rateest-bps1 2.5mbit \
                                         --rateest-gt \
                                         --rateest2 ppp0 \
                                         --rateest-bps2 2mbit \
                              -j CONNMARK --set-mark 0x1

iptables -t mangle -A BALANCE -m state --state NEW \
                              -m helper --helper ftp \
                              -m rateest --rateest-delta \
                                         --rateest1 ppp0 \
                                         --rateest-bps1 2mbit \
                                         --rateest-gt \
                                         --rateest2 eth0 \
                                         --rateest-bps2 2.5mbit \
                              -j CONNMARK --set-mark 0x2

iptables -t mangle -A BALANCE -j CONNMARK --restore-mark

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:03 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
5859034d7e [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add RATEEST target
Add new rate estimator target (using gen_estimator). In combination with
the rateest match (next patch) this can be used for load-based multipath
routing.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:02 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
0265ab44ba [NETFILTER]: merge ipt_owner/ip6t_owner in xt_owner
xt_owner merges ipt_owner and ip6t_owner, and adds a flag to match
on socket (non-)existence.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:55 -08:00
Sven Schnelle
338e8a7926 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add TCPOPTSTRIP target
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@bitebene.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:51 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
0795c65d9f [NETFILTER]: Clean up Makefile
Sort matches and targets in the NF makefiles.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:08:22 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
ee4411a1b1 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add xt_time match
This is ipt_time from POM-ng enhanced by the following:

 * xtables/ipv6 support
 * second granularity for daytime
 * day-of-month support (for example "match on the 15th of each month")
 * match against UTC or local timezone

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
59eecdfb16 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: UDPLITE support
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 20:48:44 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
370786f9cf [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add connlimit match
ipt_connlimit has been sitting in POM-NG for a long time.
Here is a new shiny xt_connlimit with:

 * xtables'ified
 * will request the layer3 module
   (previously it hotdropped every packet when it was not loaded)
 * fixed: there was a deadlock in case of an OOM condition
 * support for any layer4 protocol (e.g. UDP/SCTP)
 * using jhash, as suggested by Eric Dumazet
 * ipv6 support

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 20:47:26 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
ecfab2c9fe [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: introduce extension infrastructure
Old space allocator of conntrack had problems about extensibility.
- It required slab cache per combination of extensions.
- It expected what extensions would be assigned, but it was impossible
  to expect that completely, then we allocated bigger memory object than
  really required.
- It needed to search helper twice due to lock issue.

Now basic informations of a connection are stored in 'struct nf_conn'.
And a storage for extension (helper, NAT) is allocated by kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:17 -07:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik
ba9dda3ab5 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add TRACE target
The TRACE target can be used to follow IP and IPv6 packets through
the ruleset.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick NcHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:14 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
1b50b8a371 [NETFILTER]: Add u32 match
Along comes... xt_u32, a revamped ipt_u32 from POM-NG,
Plus:

    *	2007-06-02: added ipv6 support

    *	2007-06-05: uses kmalloc for the big buffer

    *   2007-06-05: added inversion

    *   2007-06-20: use skb_copy_bits() and get rid of the big buffer
        and lock (suggested by Pablo Neira Ayuso)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:13 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
cdd289a2f8 [NETFILTER]: add IPv6-capable TCPMSS target
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:39:16 -08:00
Michal Schmidt
6fecd19851 [NETFILTER]: Add SANE connection tracking helper
This is nf_conntrack_sane, a netfilter connection tracking helper module
for the SANE protocol used by the 'saned' daemon to make scanners available
via network. The SANE protocol uses separate control & data connections,
similar to passive FTP. The helper module is needed to recognize the data
connection as RELATED to the control one.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:39:09 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
a536df35b3 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add TFTP helper port
Add IPv4 and IPv6 capable nf_conntrack port of the TFTP conntrack/NAT helper.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:10:18 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
9fafcd7b20 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add SIP helper port
Add IPv4 and IPv6 capable nf_conntrack port of the SIP conntrack/NAT helper.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:09:57 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
f09943fefe [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add PPTP helper port
Add nf_conntrack port of the PPtP conntrack/NAT helper. Since there seems
to be no IPv6-capable PPtP implementation the helper only support IPv4.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:09:41 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
92703eee4c [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add NetBIOS name service helper port
Add nf_conntrack port of the NetBIOS name service conntrack helper.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:09:24 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
869f37d8e4 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add IRC helper port
Add nf_conntrack port of the IRC conntrack/NAT helper. Since DCC doesn't
support IPv6 yet, the helper is still IPv4 only.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:09:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
f587de0e2f [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add H.323 helper port
Add IPv4 and IPv6 capable nf_conntrack port of the H.323 conntrack/NAT helper.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:08:46 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
1695890057 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add amanda helper port
Add IPv4 and IPv6 capable nf_conntrack port of the Amanda conntrack/NAT helper.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:08:26 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
baf7b1e112 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add NFLOG target
Add new NFLOG target to allow use of nfnetlink_log for both IPv4 and IPv6.
Currently we have two (unsupported by userspace) hacks in the LOG and ULOG
targets to optionally call to the nflog API. They lack a few features,
namely the IPv4 and IPv6 LOG targets can not specify a number of arguments
related to nfnetlink_log, while the ULOG target is only available for IPv4.
Remove those hacks and add a clean way to use nfnetlink_log.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:31 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
39b46fc6f0 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add port of hashlimit match for IPv4 and IPv6
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:31 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
d62f9ed4a4 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: automatic sysctl registation for conntrack protocols
Add helper functions for sysctl registration with optional instantiating
of common path elements (like net/netfilter) and use it for support for
automatic registation of conntrack protocol sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:17 -08:00
Martin Josefsson
8f03dea52b [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out protocol handling
This patch splits out L3/L4 protocol handling into its own file
nf_conntrack_proto.c

Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:07 -08:00
Martin Josefsson
f61801218a [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out the event cache
This patch splits out the event cache into its own file
nf_conntrack_ecache.c

Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:06 -08:00
Martin Josefsson
7e5d03bb9d [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out helper handling
This patch splits out handling of helpers into its own file
nf_conntrack_helper.c

Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:05 -08:00
Martin Josefsson
77ab9cff0f [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: split out expectation handling
This patch splits out expectation handling into its own file
nf_conntrack_expect.c

Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2006-12-02 21:31:04 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
a468701db5 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: replace IPv4 DSCP target by address family independent version
This replaces IPv4 DSCP target by address family independent version.
This also
	- utilizes dsfield.h to get/mangle DS field in IPv4/IPv6 header
	- fixes Kconfig help text.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:22 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
9ba1627617 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: replace IPv4 dscp match by address family independent version
This replaces IPv4 dscp match by address family independent version.
This also
	- utilizes dsfield.h to get the DS field in IPv4/IPv6 header, and
	- checks for the DSCP value from user space.
	- fixes Kconfig help text.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:21 -07:00
James Morris
100468e9c0 [SECMARK]: Add CONNSECMARK xtables target
Add a new xtables target, CONNSECMARK, which is used to specify rules
for copying security marks from packets to connections, and for
copyying security marks back from connections to packets.  This is
similar to the CONNMARK target, but is more limited in scope in that
it only allows copying of security marks to and from packets, as this
is all it needs to do.

A typical scenario would be to apply a security mark to a 'new' packet
with SECMARK, then copy that to its conntrack via CONNMARK, and then
restore the security mark from the connection to established and
related packets on that connection.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:03 -07:00
James Morris
5e6874cdb8 [SECMARK]: Add xtables SECMARK target
Add a SECMARK target to xtables, allowing the admin to apply security
marks to packets via both iptables and ip6tables.

The target currently handles SELinux security marking, but can be
extended for other purposes as needed.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:29:59 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
f3389805e5 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add statistic match
Add statistic match which is a combination of the nth and random matches.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:28:51 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
62b7743483 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add quota match
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:28:49 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
a89ecb6a2e [NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 multiport match
This unifies ipt_multiport and ip6t_multiport to xt_multiport.
As a result, this addes support for inversion and port range match
to IPv6 packets.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01 02:22:54 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
dc5ab2faec [NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 esp match
This unifies ipt_esp and ip6t_esp to xt_esp. Please note that now
a user program needs to specify IPPROTO_ESP as protocol to use esp match
with IPv6. This means that ip6tables requires '-p esp' like iptables.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01 02:22:30 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
c4b8851392 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: replace IPv4/IPv6 policy match by address family independant version
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:03:40 -08:00
Harald Welte
2e4e6a17af [NETFILTER] x_tables: Abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables
This monster-patch tries to do the best job for unifying the data
structures and backend interfaces for the three evil clones ip_tables,
ip6_tables and arp_tables.  In an ideal world we would never have
allowed this kind of copy+paste programming... but well, our world
isn't (yet?) ideal.

o introduce a new x_tables module
o {ip,arp,ip6}_tables depend on this x_tables module
o registration functions for tables, matches and targets are only
  wrappers around x_tables provided functions
o all matches/targets that are used from ip_tables and ip6_tables
  are now implemented as xt_FOOBAR.c files and provide module aliases
  to ipt_FOOBAR and ip6t_FOOBAR
o header files for xt_matches are in include/linux/netfilter/,
  include/linux/netfilter_{ipv4,ipv6} contains compatibility wrappers
  around the xt_FOOBAR.h headers

Based on this patchset we're going to further unify the code,
gradually getting rid of all the layer 3 specific assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-12 14:06:43 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
c1d10adb4a [NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink port for nf_conntrack
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05 12:19:05 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
9fb9cbb108 [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only
handle ipv4.  There were basically two choices present to add
connection tracking support for ipv6.  We could either duplicate all
of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the
choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that
could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol
(TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written.

In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3
protocol.

The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal
with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6,
which is also cured here.  For example, these issues include:

1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in
   ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate
   in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP
   messages

2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because
   the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag"
   (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply
   isn't feasible in ipv6

3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots
   before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were
   no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking
   design

4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT

The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of
the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack
and it is feature complete.  Once that occurs, the old conntrack
stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will
fully kill it off 6 months later.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-09 16:38:16 -08:00
Harald Welte
f6ebe77f95 [NETFILTER]: split net/core/netfilter.c into net/netfilter/*.c
This patch doesn't introduce any code changes, but merely splits the
core netfilter code into four separate files.  It also moves it from
it's old location in net/core/ to the recently-created net/netfilter/
directory.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:51:11 -07:00