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From: "Julius Volz" <juliusv@google.com>
To: "Patrick McHardy" <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "Simon Horman" <horms@verge.net.au>,
	"Vince Busam" <vbusam@google.com>,
	"Ben Greear" <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS.
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:33:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4845fc0806121233i54099a18k9104eb34359b923f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485144DF.3030102@trash.net>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> Julius Volz wrote:
>> Ah, that's what I thought... Are there any simple kernel examples with
>> userspace counterparts to look at? I know iproute2 uses netlink, but
>> it seems like a rather complicated example.
>
> For nfnetlink: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c and
> libnfnetlink_conntrack from git.netfilter.org.

Thanks!

>> Genetlink seems especially nice, although I couldn't find a general
>> explanation of it other than in git history.
>
> I don't have an example for genetlink, but I guess you should
> find some in libnl. In this case I guess both would be fine
> since ipvs is only loosely tied to the rest of netfilter.

Ok, my first impression is that genetlink is aimed at being simple to
use (and has a nice howto).

So we'll work on a genetlink interface and some of the other v6 patch
issues and then post again in a while. Thanks for the feedback!

Horms: ping if you're interested or have some good ideas for this.

Julius

-- 
Google Switzerland GmbH

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-11 17:11 [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 01/26] IPVS: Add CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 option for IPv6 support Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 02/26] IPVS: Change IPVS data structures to support IPv6 addresses Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12   ` Patrick McHardy
     [not found]     ` <f4845fc0806111041u2a9a197fseefe300ffbbda3c3@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <485010E9.6000506@trash.net>
2008-06-11 18:08         ` Julius Volz
2008-06-12  1:54   ` Brian Haley
2008-06-12  9:47     ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 03/26] IPVS: Use new address family fields in IPVS structs Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 04/26] IPVS: Add address family specific debugging macros Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 05/26] IPVS: Use new " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:14   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 06/26] IPVS: Add IPv6-specific function pointers to struct ip_vs_protocol Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 07/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 handler functions to AH protocol handler Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 08/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 handler functions to ESP " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 09/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 handler functions to TCP " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 10/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 handler functions to UDP " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:18   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 11/26] IPVS: Add supports_ipv6 flag to schedulers Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 12/26] IPVS: Extend proto handler debug functions to handle IPv6 Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:17   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 13/26] IPVS: Turn off FTP application helper for IPv6 Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 14/26] IPVS: Extend xmit routing cache to support IPv6 Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 15/26] IPVS: Modify IP_VS_XMIT() " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 16/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 xmit forwarding functions Julius R. Volz
2008-06-12  1:55   ` Brian Haley
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 17/26] IPVS: Add connection hashing function for IPv6 entries Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 18/26] IPVS: Add functions for getting/creating IPv6 connections Julius R. Volz
2008-06-12  1:55   ` Brian Haley
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 19/26] IPVS: Add scheduling functions for " Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 20/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 Netfilter hooks and add/modify support functions Julius R. Volz
2008-06-12  1:55   ` Brian Haley
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 21/26] IPVS: Make proc/net files output IPv6 entries correctly Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 22/26] IPVS: Add function to find out if IPv6 address is local Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 23/26] IPVS: Add hash functions for IPv6 services and real servers Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 24/26] IPVS: Add IPv6 support to userspace interface Julius R. Volz
2008-06-12  1:55   ` Brian Haley
2008-06-12  9:46     ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 25/26] IPVS: Add support for IPv6 entry output in procfs files Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 26/26] IPVS: Add some blame/credits for IPv6 version Julius R. Volz
2008-06-11 17:23 ` [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 18:23   ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 18:42     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 19:05       ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 19:10         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 19:29           ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 19:31             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 19:53               ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 20:14                 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-11 20:55                   ` Vince Busam
2008-06-11 21:30                     ` Ben Greear
2008-06-11 22:26                       ` Vince Busam
2008-06-12  1:45                         ` Simon Horman
2008-06-12 13:31                           ` Julius Volz
2008-06-12 13:38                             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-12 15:34                               ` Julius Volz
2008-06-12 15:41                                 ` Julius Volz
2008-06-12 15:46                                 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-12 19:33                                   ` Julius Volz [this message]
2008-06-13  6:26                                     ` Simon Horman
2008-06-13 14:17                                       ` Julius Volz
2008-06-13 15:14                                         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-16  0:14                                           ` Julius Volz
2008-06-16 11:47                                             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-16 12:13                                               ` Julius Volz
2008-06-16 23:19                                               ` Julius Volz
2008-06-17 11:52                                                 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 17:18                                                   ` Julius Volz
2008-06-17 20:08                                                     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 22:47                                                       ` Julius Volz
2008-06-18  8:57                                                         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-18 14:17                                                           ` Julius Volz
2008-06-18 14:19                                                             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-18 14:27                                                               ` Julius Volz
2008-06-18 14:30                                                                 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-18 14:36                                                                   ` Julius Volz
2008-06-30 12:01                                               ` Julius Volz

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