Re: [PATCH 2.6.20.4] Connection tracking: New SIP ALG that actually works

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Carlos Munoz wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>
> 
> I understand. We've had our sip alg before one was distributed with the
> kernel sources. When we upgrade to new kernel versions we regression
> test all features and the sip alg has always failed. So we keep using
> our sip alg. Management won't allocate resources to fix the sip alg in
> the kernel when ours works. However, that might change if our sip alg
> stops working.


I see. It will stop working in 2.6.22 since we're going to remove
ip_conntrack, so you will at least have to port it to nf_conntrack
when you upgrade your kernel. Of course it would be very much
appreciated if you can convince your management to fix the version
in the kernel instead :)