Re: [RFC] High Performance Packet Classification (HPPC) to succeed HIPAC

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Steven Van Acker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a user of nf-HIPAC (http://www.hipac.org) and I've tried to monitor it's
> progress into the main kernel tree. Unfortunately, the work on nf-HIPAC seems to
> have stopped.  The last update of the website is from November 8th 2005, which
> is almost 2 years ago.
> 
> Unless there is some work being done on integrating HIPAC with iptables (or
> xtables), I would like to give this a go.
> 
> The main problem I see with this right now is that the patch is way too big to
> analyze and rework (at least for me). So instead, I would like to reimplement
> everything from scratch and integrate it with iptables from the very start.


We're holding the netfilter workshop next week, and one of the
topics will be a possible merge of nf-hipac. If this doesn't
work out, we'll start looking into alternatives, but until then
I prefer to stay optimistic :)

So lets postpone this discussion for a week.