String match for 2.6?

String match for 2.6?

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Hello,

Can anyone here comment on the status of the string match for the 2.6 kernel
series?

Kind regards,
Udo

String match for 2.6?

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Hello,

Can anyone here comment on the status of the string match for the 2.6 kernel
series?
Yes, I asked this before but got no reply and I recall some progress on the
string match was discussed some time ago.
I would very much like to be able to use a string match on 2.6.x but I am no
coder. :-(
What are the current issues, when could we test the functionality?

Kind regards,
Udo

Re: String match for 2.6?

[Harald Welte]

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On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:06:30AM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone here comment on the status of the string match for the 2.6 kernel
> series?

The status is that no one submitted a working port yet.  The string
match is not an official feature of netfilter/iptables, but rather a
contributed patch.  The core developers are unlikely to spend time on
it.

> Kind regards,
> Udo

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string match for 2.6?

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Hello,

Can anyone please tell about the plans for updating the string match to
the 2.6 tree?
If there are no plans: what could be my best alternatives?

Kind regards,
Udo

Re: string match for 2.6?

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hi,

>Can anyone please tell about the plans for updating the string match to
>the 2.6 tree?

(Don't know much about string's 2.6 fitness, so it's
neither "plans" nor "no plans")

>If there are no plans: what could be my best alternatives?

l7-filter.sf.net -- you can "abuse" it to have some string matching. It also 
has regexes, so if you need that, you're in best hands ;)
Note however that regexes may take slightly more CPU.



Jan Engelhardt
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