From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>,
lmb@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:44:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041021074450.GA1093@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041020223828.GP19899@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:38:28AM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> Hi Dave!
>
> This is the second patch, adding the 'CLUSTERIP' target to iptables. It
> depends on the first 'CONNMARK' patch.
>
> This enables you to build a static load sharing cluster between multiple
> nodes - without the requirement to have a load balancer. It uses a
> series of [evil] tricks like replying with linklayer multicast addresses
> to ARP requests, and using CONNMARK for stateful blocking all traffic
> not intended for the local node.
>
> Apart from the usual netfilter-specific file additions and
> Kconfig/Makefile patches, this needs to export proc_file_operations in
> order to get the reference counting of certain data objects right. I
> hope this change is acceptable.
The export is totally bogus. If you need to do fancy things procfs is
the wrong interface. Care to explain why exactly you think you need it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 22:38 [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target Harald Welte
2004-10-20 23:18 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-10-21 4:40 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-21 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-10-21 7:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-21 9:12 ` Harald Welte
2004-10-21 9:40 ` Herbert Xu
2004-10-21 11:05 ` bert hubert
2004-10-21 13:03 ` Harald Welte
2004-10-21 13:33 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-10-21 14:25 ` Harald Welte
2004-10-21 15:08 ` bert hubert
2004-10-21 21:31 ` Allowing netlink_family to be any integer (was: [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target) Herbert Xu
2004-10-21 22:53 ` Thomas Graf
2004-10-21 23:02 ` Allowing netlink_family to be any integer Ben Greear
2004-10-22 12:25 ` Allowing netlink_family to be any integer (was: [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target) Herbert Xu
2004-10-22 12:53 ` jamal
2004-10-22 11:29 ` jamal
2004-10-22 11:39 ` Herbert Xu
2004-10-22 12:19 ` jamal
2004-10-22 12:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2004-10-22 23:05 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-22 23:16 ` Herbert Xu
2004-10-26 3:27 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-21 16:36 ` [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target, seq_file version Harald Welte
2004-10-21 17:44 ` jamal
2004-10-21 18:03 ` Harald Welte
2004-10-21 18:41 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-10-22 5:52 ` David S. Miller
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