From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [RFC] High Performance Packet Classification (HPPC) to succeed HIPAC Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:57:16 +0200 Message-ID: <46E12E8C.3030603@trash.net> References: <20070907090923.GA31885@ekonomika.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Steven Van Acker Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070907090923.GA31885@ekonomika.be> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Steven Van Acker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a user of nf-HIPAC (http://www.hipac.org) and I've tried to monitor it's > progress into the main kernel tree. Unfortunately, the work on nf-HIPAC seems to > have stopped. The last update of the website is from November 8th 2005, which > is almost 2 years ago. > > Unless there is some work being done on integrating HIPAC with iptables (or > xtables), I would like to give this a go. > > The main problem I see with this right now is that the patch is way too big to > analyze and rework (at least for me). So instead, I would like to reimplement > everything from scratch and integrate it with iptables from the very start. We're holding the netfilter workshop next week, and one of the topics will be a possible merge of nf-hipac. If this doesn't work out, we'll start looking into alternatives, but until then I prefer to stay optimistic :) So lets postpone this discussion for a week.