Problems with mms-conntrack-nat

Problems with mms-conntrack-nat

[Peter Kaagman]

Hi there list,

Sure hope this is the correct list and you guys can help me. Seing the
topics go by here I am wondering if this is the place to ask questions
like this.... but anyway.... here it is...

I am having problem trying to apply mms-conntrack-nat

This is my setup:


root@sentry2:/usr/src# ls -l
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   15 2008-04-25 12:51 iptables ->
iptables-1.3.8//
drwxr-xr-x  6 1000 1000 4096 2007-06-25 01:29 iptables-1.3.8/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   14 2008-04-23 16:46 linux -> linux-2.6.21.5/
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2008-04-25 13:34 linux-2.6.21.5/
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 2008-04-25 12:46 patch-o-matic-ng-20080424/
root@sentry2:/usr/src# uname -a
Linux sentry2 2.6.21.5-smp #2 SMP Tue Jun 19 14:58:11 CDT 2007 i686
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
root@sentry2:/usr/src# cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 12.0.0
root@sentry2:/usr/src#      


When I try to apply the mms-conntrack-nat patch I get the following
error:

Do you want to apply this patch [N/y/t/f/a/r/b/w/q/?] y
unable to find ladd slot in src
/tmp/pom-2986/net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile
(./patchlets/mms-conntrack-nat/linux-2.6.12/./net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefil
e.ladd)

Did not have this problem in the past... it applied just fine than.

Tried googling on that but what I found did not really make sense to me.

Regards

Peter

Re: Problems with mms-conntrack-nat

[Patrick McHardy]

Peter Kaagman wrote:
> Hi there list,
> 
> Sure hope this is the correct list and you guys can help me. Seing the
> topics go by here I am wondering if this is the place to ask questions
> like this.... but anyway.... here it is...
> 
> I am having problem trying to apply mms-conntrack-nat

That code is terminally broken, I wouldn't spend any effort on it.

Re: Problems with mms-conntrack-nat

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Tuesday 2008-05-13 16:06, Peter Kaagman wrote:
>
>I am having problem trying to apply mms-conntrack-nat

Nobody updated this in recent times, similarly to the old pom.

RE: Problems with mms-conntrack-nat

[Peter Kaagman]

I am under the impression that I need this module to allow users to
access streaming media on the Internet. Being a school this is kinda
important to us. And our current firewall machine is in desperate need
for an upgrade.

I sure hope my impression is wrong.... is there something else I could
use... a certain technique I could use

An rtfm (accompanied by a link ;)) would be greatly appreciated.

Peter

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Patrick McHardy [mailto:kaber@trash.net] 
Verzonden: dinsdag 13 mei 2008 16:53
Aan: Peter Kaagman
CC: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Onderwerp: Re: Problems with mms-conntrack-nat

Peter Kaagman wrote:
> Hi there list,
> 
> Sure hope this is the correct list and you guys can help me. Seing the
> topics go by here I am wondering if this is the place to ask questions
> like this.... but anyway.... here it is...
> 
> I am having problem trying to apply mms-conntrack-nat

That code is terminally broken, I wouldn't spend any effort on it.

Re: Problems with mms-conntrack-nat

[Patrick McHardy]

Peter Kaagman wrote:
> I am under the impression that I need this module to allow users to
> access streaming media on the Internet. Being a school this is kinda
> important to us. And our current firewall machine is in desperate need
> for an upgrade.

I like that idea more than the usual "lock everything down" :)
>
> I sure hope my impression is wrong.... is there something else I could
> use... a certain technique I could use

I know basically nothing about MMS, but according to wikipedia its
obsoleted in favor of RTSP. In most cases (protocols like SIP or
H.323 which use seperate bands for signalling and data being the
expectation) you don't need any additional helpers for this since
the data is transported in-band.

Do you have a specific example of something that would need this
helper?

>
> An rtfm (accompanied by a link ;)) would be greatly appreciated.

On what topic? :)