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Yasuyuki Kozakai deac0ccdb4 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: fix dependencies of conntrack related modules
NF_CONNTRACK_MARK is bool and depends on NF_CONNTRACK which is
tristate.  If a variable depends on NF_CONNTRACK_MARK and doesn't take
care about NF_CONNTRACK, it can be y even if NF_CONNTRACK isn't y.
NF_CT_ACCT have same issue, too.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-15 15:21:31 -08:00
Harald Welte a6c1cd5726 [NETFILTER] Fix Kconfig menu level for x_tables
The new x_tables related Kconfig options appear at the wrong menu level
without this patch.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-13 15:42:48 -08:00
Harald Welte 2e4e6a17af [NETFILTER] x_tables: Abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables
This monster-patch tries to do the best job for unifying the data
structures and backend interfaces for the three evil clones ip_tables,
ip6_tables and arp_tables.  In an ideal world we would never have
allowed this kind of copy+paste programming... but well, our world
isn't (yet?) ideal.

o introduce a new x_tables module
o {ip,arp,ip6}_tables depend on this x_tables module
o registration functions for tables, matches and targets are only
  wrappers around x_tables provided functions
o all matches/targets that are used from ip_tables and ip6_tables
  are now implemented as xt_FOOBAR.c files and provide module aliases
  to ipt_FOOBAR and ip6t_FOOBAR
o header files for xt_matches are in include/linux/netfilter/,
  include/linux/netfilter_{ipv4,ipv6} contains compatibility wrappers
  around the xt_FOOBAR.h headers

Based on this patchset we're going to further unify the code,
gradually getting rid of all the layer 3 specific assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-12 14:06:43 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso c1d10adb4a [NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink port for nf_conntrack
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05 12:19:05 -08:00
Patrick McHardy a795756333 [NETFILTER]: Mark ctnetlink as EXPERIMENTAL
Should have been marked EXPERIMENTAL from the beginning, as the current
bunch of fixes show.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:36:25 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai 9fb9cbb108 [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only
handle ipv4.  There were basically two choices present to add
connection tracking support for ipv6.  We could either duplicate all
of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the
choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that
could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol
(TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written.

In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3
protocol.

The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal
with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6,
which is also cured here.  For example, these issues include:

1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in
   ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate
   in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP
   messages

2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because
   the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag"
   (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply
   isn't feasible in ipv6

3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots
   before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were
   no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking
   design

4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT

The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of
the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack
and it is feature complete.  Once that occurs, the old conntrack
stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will
fully kill it off 6 months later.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-09 16:38:16 -08:00
Harald Welte 0597f2680d [NETFILTER]: Add new "nfnetlink_log" userspace packet logging facility
This is a generic (layer3 independent) version of what ipt_ULOG is already
doing for IPv4 today.  ipt_ULOG, ebt_ulog and finally also ip[6]t_LOG will
be deprecated by this mechanism in the long term.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:38:12 -07:00
Harald Welte 7af4cc3fa1 [NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlink_queue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlink
- Add new nfnetlink_queue module
- Add new ipt_NFQUEUE and ip6t_NFQUEUE modules to access queue numbers 1-65535
- Mark ip_queue and ip6_queue Kconfig options as OBSOLETE
- Update feature-removal-schedule to remove ip[6]_queue in December

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:36:56 -07:00
Harald Welte f9e815b376 [NETFITLER]: Add nfnetlink layer.
Introduce "nfnetlink" (netfilter netlink) layer.  This layer is used as
transport layer for all userspace communication of the new upcoming
netfilter subsystems, such as ctnetlink, nfnetlink_queue and some day even
the mythical pkttables ;)

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:29 -07:00