From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: KOVACS Krisztian Subject: Re: Roadmap for IPv6 stateful filtering Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:02:03 +0100 Message-ID: <200511081502.04272@nienna> References: <436FBCDF.4060900@net.in.tum.de> <4370A4A3.20702@eurodev.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Harald Welte , Gregor Maier , Pablo Neira Return-path: To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org In-Reply-To: <4370A4A3.20702@eurodev.net> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tuesday 08 November 2005 14.14, Pablo Neira wrote: > Gregor Maier wrote: > > I just wanted to ask if there is any roadmap or a plan when (if at all) > > stateful filtering (and maybe connection tracking) for IPv6 will be > > available in netfilter. > > I found a page that claimed that stateful IPv6 filtering will be > > available in the 2.6.15 kernel release (unfortunaly I misplaced the > > link to the page somewhere :-( ). Is this info correct? Or is there > > another kernel version targeted? > > nf_conntrack got pushed forward to 2.6.15, so you'll have that feature > in the next release candidate. Unfortunately I'm not quite sure about that... It's not yet in Linus' tree and it did not made it into Arnaldo's net-2.6 tree either. Maybe Harald has more information about it, but it seems quite a bit uncertain whether or not it will be merged in 2.6.15... -- Regards, Krisztian Kovacs