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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
Cornelia Huck
3fd8f9e4b6 [NETFILTER]: xt_connlimit needs to depend on nf_conntrack
With NF_CONNTRACK=n, NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNLIMIT=m I get the
following errors on current git:

  CC [M]  net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.o
  In file included from net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c:27:
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h💯 error: field 'ct_general' has incomplete type
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h: In function 'nf_ct_get':
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:164: error: 'const struct sk_buff' has no member named 'nfct'
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h: In function 'nf_ct_put':
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:171: warning: implicit declaration of function 'nf_conntrack_put'
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h: In function 'nf_ct_is_untracked':
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:253: error: 'const struct sk_buff' has no member named 'nfct'
  In file included from net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c:28:
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.h: In function 'nf_conntrack_confirm':
  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.h:68: error: 'struct sk_buff' has no member named 'nfct'

Adding a dependency in Kconfig fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18 02:38:32 -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
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
David Sterba
3dde6ad8fc Fix trivial typos in Kconfig* files
Fix several typos in help text in Kconfig* files.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 07:12:20 +02:00
Alexander E. Patrakov
39f5fb3035 kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help
Documentation/modules.txt doesn't exist, but
Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt does.

Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-02 20:58:11 +02:00
Patrick McHardy
587aa64163 [NETFILTER]: Remove IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT
Remove the obsolete IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT as scheduled in
feature-removal-schedule.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:34 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
ca8fbb859c [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_netlink: add missing dependency on NF_NAT
NF_CT_NETLINK=y, NF_NAT=m results in:

 LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
 net/built-in.o: dans la fonction « nfnetlink_parse_nat_proto »:
 nf_conntrack_netlink.c:(.text+0x28db9): référence indéfinie vers « nf_nat_proto_find_get »
 nf_conntrack_netlink.c:(.text+0x28dd6): référence indéfinie vers « nf_nat_proto_put »
 net/built-in.o: dans la fonction « ctnetlink_new_conntrack »:
 nf_conntrack_netlink.c:(.text+0x29959): référence indéfinie vers « nf_nat_setup_info »
 nf_conntrack_netlink.c:(.text+0x29b35): référence indéfinie vers « nf_nat_setup_info »
 nf_conntrack_netlink.c:(.text+0x29cf7): référence indéfinie vers « nf_nat_setup_info »
 nf_conntrack_netlink.c:(.text+0x29de2): référence indéfinie vers « nf_nat_setup_info »
 make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Erreur 1 

Reported by Kevin Baradon <kevin.baradon@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-22 12:29:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a3c941b08d [NETFILTER]: Kconfig: improve dependency handling
Instead of depending on internally needed options and letting users
figure out what is needed, select them when needed:

- IP_NF_IPTABLES, IP_NF_ARPTABLES and IP6_NF_IPTABLES select
  NETFILTER_XTABLES

- NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK, NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK and
  IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP select NF_CONNTRACK_MARK

- NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNBYTES selects NF_CT_ACCT

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-12 11:15:02 -08:00
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
Adrian Bunk
3e8219806c [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_h323: fix compile error with CONFIG_IPV6=m, CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_H323=y
Fix this by letting NF_CONNTRACK_H323 depend on (IPV6 || IPV6=n).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-02 19:33:52 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
2e55302366 [NETFILTER]: xt_hashlimit: fix ip6tables dependency
IP6_NF_IPTABLES=m, CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HASHLIMIT=y results in a
linker error since ipv6_find_hdr is defined in ip6_tables.c. Fix similar
to Adrian Bunk's H.323 conntrack patch: selecting ip6_tables to be build
as module requires hashlimit to be built as module as well.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-30 21:36:09 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
c9386cfddc [NETFILTER]: New connection tracking is not EXPERIMENTAL anymore
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-04 12:16:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
3a411355bc [NETFILTER]: Fix INET=n linking error
Building with INET=n results in

WARNING: "ip_route_output_key" [net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323.ko] undefined!

The entire code in net/netfilter is only used for IPv4/IPv6 currently, so
let it depend on INET.

Noticed by Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13 16:48:18 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
a3c479772c [NETFILTER]: Mark old IPv4-only connection tracking scheduled for removal
Also remove the references to "new connection tracking" from Kconfig.
After some short stabilization period of the new connection tracking
helpers/NAT code the old one will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:11:01 -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
b321e14425 [NETFILTER]: Kconfig: improve conntrack selection
Improve the connection tracking selection (well, the user experience,
not really the aesthetics) by offering one option to enable connection
tracking and a choice between the implementations.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 22:05:46 -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
c08de5d530 [NETFILTER]: xt_CONNSECMARK: fix Kconfig dependencies
CONNSECMARK needs conntrack, add missing dependency to fix linking error
with CONNSECMARK=y and CONNTRACK=m.

Reported by Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-15 23:14:09 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
f1da70632f [NETFILTER]: Kconfig: fix xt_physdev dependencies
xt_physdev depends on bridge netfilter, which is a boolean, but can still
be built modular because of special handling in the bridge makefile. Add
a dependency on BRIDGE to prevent XT_MATCH_PHYSDEV=y, BRIDGE=m.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-04 00:30:53 -07:00
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
Patrick McHardy
d5af981e93 [NETFILTER]: Demote xt_sctp to EXPERIMENTAL
After the recent problems with all the SCTP stuff it seems reasonable
to mark this as experimental.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-24 22:55:29 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
68c1692e3e [NETFILTER]: statistic match: add missing Kconfig help text
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:57:50 -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
7c9728c393 [SECMARK]: Add secmark support to conntrack
Add a secmark field to IP and NF conntracks, so that security markings
on packets can be copied to their associated connections, and also
copied back to packets as required.  This is similar to the network
mark field currently used with conntrack, although it is intended for
enforcement of security policy rather than network policy.

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 21:30:01 -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
Thomas Vögtle
50b521aa54 [NETFILTER]: Fix Kconfig typos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Vögtle <tv@lio96.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-22 13:53:48 -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
Yasuyuki Kozakai
deac0ccdb4 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: fix dependencies of conntrack related modules
NF_CONNTRACK_MARK is bool and depends on NF_CONNTRACK which is
tristate.  If a variable depends on NF_CONNTRACK_MARK and doesn't take
care about NF_CONNTRACK, it can be y even if NF_CONNTRACK isn't y.
NF_CT_ACCT have same issue, too.

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>
2006-02-15 15:21:31 -08:00
Harald Welte
a6c1cd5726 [NETFILTER] Fix Kconfig menu level for x_tables
The new x_tables related Kconfig options appear at the wrong menu level
without this patch.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-13 15:42:48 -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
Patrick McHardy
a795756333 [NETFILTER]: Mark ctnetlink as EXPERIMENTAL
Should have been marked EXPERIMENTAL from the beginning, as the current
bunch of fixes show.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:36:25 -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
0597f2680d [NETFILTER]: Add new "nfnetlink_log" userspace packet logging facility
This is a generic (layer3 independent) version of what ipt_ULOG is already
doing for IPv4 today.  ipt_ULOG, ebt_ulog and finally also ip[6]t_LOG will
be deprecated by this mechanism in the long term.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:38:12 -07:00