Re: [RFC] ct_sync 0.15 (corrected)

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Hi Krisztian,

KOVACS Krisztian wrote:

>     4. The current version is 2.4-only, it is for the good old
>        ip_conntrack, and supports IPv4 only. I don't really think
>        this is the way to go, but there is commercial interest in
>        having this kind of failover functionality as fast as possible.
>        However, I think that after reaching some state which is
>        acceptable for the users needing the basic features fast, this
>        whole thing should be re-designed and ported to 2.6 and
>        nf_conntrack. This would depend on a few other things, such as
>        porting ctnetlink for nf_conntrack, but I thing those would
>        be important to have as well. Again, this would be quite a
>        lot work to do, thus deferring the 'stable' (production ready)
>        release of the code.
>

Are there any differences between the nfnetlink-ctnetlink patch and the
ctnetlink patch in the netfilter-ha repository ? Porting ctnetlink to
2.6 would be a start. Maybe someone wants to do it, otherwise I'll do
it on a rainy day ..

Regards
Patrick