From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] [NETFILTER]: xt_length match, revision 1
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:28:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FB8F0F.3010702@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e46f22a9f7950b9f924d7918be23da9127e7eef.1207664141.git.jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Introduce xt_length match revision 1. It adds support for layer-4,
> layer-5 and layer-7 length matching. It is much easier than writing
> up the according xt_u32 magic.
>
> This can be used for packet scheduling; specific example are online
> games where all data is transferred over the same port, but the
> regular gameplay has a characteristically lower packet size than bulk
> downloads of game maps. (Tested with Unreal Tournament 99.)
I'll let this sit on the list for a few more days in case
someone else has comments. I'm personally not a huge fan
of bloating this length module like this. Perhaps something
more minimalistic would also do the trick?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-08 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-08 14:17 0/8 Netfilter patches (group 1) Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 14:17 ` [PATCH 1/8] [NETFILTER]: Use bool type in struct nf_conntrack_l3proto Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 14:17 ` [PATCH 2/8] [NETFILTER]: Use bool type in struct nf_conntrack_l4proto Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-08 14:17 ` [PATCH 3/8] [NETFILTER]: Use unsigned types for hooknum and pf vars Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:10 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 16:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 16:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-12 8:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 14:17 ` [PATCH 4/8] [NETFILTER]: Use bool type in struct nf_conntrack_tuple.h Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:12 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-08 14:17 ` [PATCH 5/8] [NETFILTER]: Use bool type in nf_nat_proto Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-08 14:17 ` [PATCH 6/8] [NETFILTER]: const annotations in nf_conntrack_{sctp,dccp}, nf_nat_proto_gre Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-08 14:17 ` [PATCH 7/8] [NETFILTER]: Replace NF_CT_DUMP_TUPLE macro indrection by function call Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-08 14:17 ` [PATCH 8/8] [NETFILTER]: xt_length match, revision 1 Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:28 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-04-09 16:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 16:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-12 6:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:03 ` [PATCH 1/8] [NETFILTER]: Use bool type in struct nf_conntrack_l3proto Patrick McHardy
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