From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269643AbUHZV3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:29:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269691AbUHZV2G (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:28:06 -0400 Received: from hostmaster.org ([212.186.110.32]:13458 "HELO hostmaster.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269643AbUHZVZR (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:25:17 -0400 Subject: Re: netfilter IPv6 support From: Thomas Zehetbauer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org In-Reply-To: <20040826130024.6ff83dff.davem@redhat.com> References: <1093546367.3497.23.camel@hostmaster.org> <20040826130024.6ff83dff.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XrcRMAdNuVNjVm2Zh+Tn" Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:25:10 +0200 Message-Id: <1093555510.3497.33.camel@hostmaster.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.93 (1.5.93-2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-XrcRMAdNuVNjVm2Zh+Tn Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Don, 2004-08-26 at 13:00 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Stateful netfilter is not there because it's a total waste > to completely duplicate all of the connection tracking et al. > code into ipv6 counterparts when %80 of the code is roughly > the same. People are working on a consolidation of these > things so that there is no code duplication but it is a lot > of work and there are bigger fires to put out at the moment. Of course it's a waste to duplicate the code but as far as I remember the status of netfilter for IPv6 has not changed for almost a year. As said there is still not even the basic REJECT target available. Tom --=20 T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 finger thomasz@hostmaster.org for key The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. --=-XrcRMAdNuVNjVm2Zh+Tn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUAQS5VNmD1OYqW/8uJAQKj+Af+KX8fHtgVq2vziIu508/BOXQ7U7TOn+7m sLy7/n+mC516PjTlq1fP0m4tKAo+MI6bFDfWRvjsqnBp3sW2nL6G2jiCSvgxWSR1 ImucDWvlyUpxkrH3zab/GYpW9l2+CkN7NuxrmFaUfHrWsKLVJ4ZoBSZkoTxwSOuj P9Hp5IHEiNHVS/C8isj6S0mxDUQAmSzFwuSKQvVQ0cx+JuyxC8kLG4EsKIxd8r4U KflZDAfPNnm6On9akp7UohYLGAqWy7tFtXEa0pro2sxSIzLMbw1Kopau5zFEioPh N2RYA7Ch5YnPtEH0QaC3NJ7ThImxWeDS+o5l2ttU2YIxFfT0ZnmqxA== =atN8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XrcRMAdNuVNjVm2Zh+Tn--