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 20:32:25 +0200 Message-ID: <46266439.2060805@trash.net> References: <4625334F.40308@kenati.com> <4625A2F9.3030502@trash.net> <46265B28.2020501@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: <46265B28.2020501@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: > 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 :)