From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [RFC] SSDP (UPnP) conntrack helper Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:32:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20120225133229.GE15774@1984> References: <20120224165359.GB11488@1984> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Ian Pilcher Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:58612 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754038Ab2BYNcb (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:32:31 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:13:54PM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 02/24/2012 10:53 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > We're targeting to have this helper and others in user-space in the > > short tun. > > > > I have a patch to add user-space helper infrastructure. I expect to > > have it done soon. > > > > I think it's time to think about having helpers in user-space. > > Thanks for the response. > > Assuming the user-space connection tracking thing pans out, it sounds > like there isn't much possibility of this making it upstream. > > I'd still like to get it the module finished up. It's a useful learning > exercise, and I think it could be useful for anyone who stays on an > older kernel, "enterprise" distribution users for example. I'll be very happy if you work on the user-space version. The user-space cthelper infrastructure will be ready in two months or so. > I would *really* appreciate some feedback on the various questions that > I've posed in this thread. I think most of the questions can be replied by looking and nf_conntrack_expect.c. I'll try to find some spare time to reply some of those questions, but I don't promise anything.