From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20.4] Connection tracking: New SIP ALG that actually works Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:47:53 +0200 Message-ID: <4625A2F9.3030502@trash.net> References: <4625334F.40308@kenati.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ranjit Deshpande , netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org To: Carlos Munoz Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4625334F.40308@kenati.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Carlos Munoz wrote: > This is a SIP ALG that actually works. It has been tested extensively > with Asterisk, Vonage, and other SIP servers. It allows for VOIP > applications to run on the router itself as well as behind the router. > We have been shipping this SIP ALG for some time now. We tested the SIP > ALG distributed with kernel 2.6.20.4 and it didn't work (none of the > SIP ALGs distributed with the kernel that we've tested have ever worked). What you should have done is report the problems you were seeing or send patches for the existing version. We're not going to just toss in a huge rewritten version, especially not since you're reintroducing a lot of bugs and do lots of things that only work on 2.4.