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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: netfilter IPv6 support
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:00:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040826130024.6ff83dff.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093546367.3497.23.camel@hostmaster.org>

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:52:47 +0200
Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org> wrote:

> Although linux was one of the first to support IPv6 it seems to me that
> netfilter support has almost stuck. There is still not even a REJECT
> target not to mention stateful filtering for IPv6.

Why not ask the netfilter development lists such questions?

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-26 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26 18:52 netfilter IPv6 support Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-08-26 20:00 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-26 21:25   ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-08-26 22:05     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-08-27 10:02       ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-08-26 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-26 21:06   ` David S. Miller
2004-08-26 21:11     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27 10:02       ` Thomas Zehetbauer

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