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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Darren Willis <djw@google.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DHCPv6 connection tracker helper
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:18:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120210111801.GA9827@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFntDkx2SUkCkSbU7sO4OrWqypWQpY-KNgrD-_DgqRSXAGvJZQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Darren,

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:30:33AM +0900, Darren Willis wrote:
> Adds a connection tracker helper for DHCPv6, which relies on UDP
> multicast solicitations to discover DHCPv6 servers.
> 
> This allows DHCPv6 to work through ip6tables rulesets where
> non-related traffic is dropped (e.g., default fedora iptables).
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656334

why not just adding the rule that allows udp traffic for this?

I still don't see the need for this extra module if you can get it
done with iptables itself.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-10 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-10  2:30 [PATCH] DHCPv6 connection tracker helper Darren Willis
2012-02-10 11:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2012-02-13  4:07   ` Darren Willis
2012-02-13 23:05     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-02-13  9:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-14  0:46   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-02-15  9:00   ` Darren Willis
2012-02-15 17:13     ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-16  4:56       ` Darren Willis
2012-02-24 17:54         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-02-27  4:18           ` Darren Willis
2012-02-28 23:54             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-03-02  3:59               ` Darren Willis
2012-03-03 13:35                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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