From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Mohammad Mohsenzadeh <mmohsenz@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 support for other 'features'
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:51:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461D2033.2030508@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6af3bc80704111039x322e55e5qe1ea1568b59214b0@mail.gmail.com>
Mohammad Mohsenzadeh wrote:
> I have been developing extension for netfilter to allow stateful
> firewall and filtering. I was looking at the new api in 2.6.20 and I
> was wondering why the number of 'features' allowed is maxed to 4.
>
> I was thinking of configuration number of features and maybe some way
> of setting a default feature to use instead of NF_CT_F_BASIC. This way
> the netfilter can easily be extended. I can provide a patch if you
> think the above is a good idea.
Actually on second thought, I don't think this can even work.
The features and the resulting memory layout of struct nf_conn
need to be coordinated for all different combinations, so
you can at most extend it by one, which would always come at
the end.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 17:39 2.6.20 support for other 'features' Mohammad Mohsenzadeh
2007-04-11 17:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11 17:46 ` Mohammad Mohsenzadeh
2007-04-11 17:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-11 17:51 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-04-11 18:14 ` Mohammad Mohsenzadeh
2007-04-11 18:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-12 22:49 ` Mohammad Mohsenzadeh
2007-04-13 4:22 ` Patrick McHardy
[not found] ` <200704161302.l3GD27Ft021389@toshiba.co.jp>
2007-04-16 13:10 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-16 13:02 ` Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
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