what is patch-o-matic?

what is patch-o-matic?

[Afshin Lamei]

Hi,
what is patch-o-matic, and what does it do?
Is it necessarily needed or only provides additional functionalities?
thanks,
--afshin




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Re: what is patch-o-matic?

[Fabrice MARIE]

Hello,

On Saturday 30 November 2002 14:04, Afshin Lamei wrote:
> Hi,
> what is patch-o-matic, and what does it do?
> Is it necessarily needed or only provides additional functionalities?
> thanks,

http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/netfilter-extensions-HOWTO.html

Have a nice day,

Fabrice.
--
Fabrice MARIE

"Silly hacker, root is for administrators"
       -Unknown

Re: what is patch-o-matic?

[Maciej Soltysiak]

Hi Afshin,

patch-o-matic is a set of patches that:
- apply changes pending for inclusion to the kernel tree
- apply functionality/bugfixes which have been submitted to the kernel,
  and which you may not have with your running kernel
- add new features/targets/matches written by people from around the world
  that may prove useful.

It's a way to make your netfilter firewall a swiss army knife.
It includes features known from other firewall solutions, and some totally
unknown. Thanks to the modularity and opensource character :))

> Is it necessarily needed or only provides additional functionalities?
Well, sometimes its patches are needed, if you need eg. amanda nat module,
quake conntrack modules, mms, h.323 modules, pptp modules, or the ability
to change the conntrack timeouts on the fly via /proc

Regards,
Maciej Soltysiak