Re: [PATCH] Add TCPCONG target to patch-o-matic

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Glen Turner wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have created a kernel module and iptables shared library
> to allow netfilter to set the TCP congestion control
> algorithm.
> 
> This has three major uses: selecting differing algorithms
> for wired and non-wired interfaces; selecting differing
> algorithms for close and far hosts; and selecting differing
> algorithms for comparison testing.
> 
> Thanks to the hint from Pablo Neira Ayuso I have put this
> into the patch-o-matic format.  This has been tested against
> iptables-1.3.6 and linux-2.6.18.
> 
> A SVN diff against patch-o-matic follows, which I'm hoping
> Thunderbird doesn't mangle. Since I'm not familiar with SVN
> please let me know if this isn't the desired patch format.
> 
> I would hope that this facility can become a standard part of
> the kernel and iptables.  Please let me know what I need to
> do to follow that path.

I don't think iptables is the right place to do this. It should
be controllable through routing IMO (which can already control
some aspects of congestion control).