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2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: unions of just one member don't get anything done, kill themArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Renaming skb->h to skb->transport_header, skb->nh to skb->network_header and skb->mac to skb->mac_header, to match the names of the associated helpers (skb[_[re]set]_{transport,network,mac}_header). Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_header_lenArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common sequence "skb->h.raw - skb->nh.raw", similar to skb->mac_len, that is precalculated tho, don't think we need to bloat skb with one more member, so just use this new helper, reducing the number of non-skbuff.h references to the layer headers even more. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[IPV6]: Reset the network header in ip6_nd_hdrArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ip6_nd_hdr is always called immediately after a alloc_skb + skb_reserve sequence, i.e. when skb->tail is equal to skb->data, making it correct to use skb_reset_network_header(). Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add nf_copy() to safely copy members in skbYasuyuki Kozakai
This unifies the codes to copy netfilter related datas. Before copying, nf_copy() puts original members in destination skb. 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>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_transport_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common, open coded 'skb->h.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can later turn skb->h.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in 64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit. This one touches just the most simple cases: skb->h.raw = skb->data; skb->h.raw = {skb_push|[__]skb_pull}() The next ones will handle the slightly more "complex" cases. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce ipv6_hdr(), remove skb->nh.ipv6hArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Now the skb->nh union has just one member, .raw, i.e. it is just like the skb->mac union, strange, no? I'm just leaving it like that till the transport layer is done with, when we'll rename skb->mac.raw to skb->mac_header (or ->mac_header_offset?), ditto for ->{h,nh}. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_set_network_headerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the cases where the network header is being set to a offset from skb->data. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_header()Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the places where we need a pointer to the network header, it is still legal to touch skb->nh.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it to another layer header. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_offset()Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the quite common 'skb->nh.raw - skb->data' sequence. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Use skb_reset_network_header in skb_push casesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
skb_push updates and returns skb->data, so we can just call skb_reset_network_header after the call to skb_push. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_network_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common, open coded 'skb->nh.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can later turn skb->nh.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in 64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit. This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more "complex" cases. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in 64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit. This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more "complex" cases. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429) Support.Neil Horman
Nominally an autoconfigured IPv6 address is added to an interface in the Tentative state (as per RFC 2462). Addresses in this state remain in this state while the Duplicate Address Detection process operates on them to determine their uniqueness on the network. During this period, these tentative addresses may not be used for communication, increasing the time before a node may be able to communicate on a network. Using Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection, autoconfigured addresses may be used immediately for communication on the network, as long as certain rules are followed to avoid conflicts with other nodes during the Duplicate Address Detection process. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[IPV6]: Decentralize EXPORT_SYMBOLs.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2007-02-10[NET] IPV6: Fix whitespace errors.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08[NET]: Convert hh_lock to seqlock.Stephen Hemminger
The hard header cache is in the main output path, so using seqlock instead of reader/writer lock should reduce overhead. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06[IPV6]: Repair IPv6 FragmentsYOSHIFUJI Hideaki
The commit "[IPV6]: Use kmemdup" (commit-id: af879cc704372ef762584e916129d19ffb39e844) broke IPv6 fragments. Bug was spotted by Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[IPV6]: Use kmemdupArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Code diff stats: [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ codiff /tmp/ipv6.ko.before /tmp/ipv6.ko.after /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c: ip6_output | -52 ip6_append_data | +2 2 functions changed, 2 bytes added, 52 bytes removed /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/net/ipv6/addrconf.c: addrconf_sysctl_register | -27 1 function changed, 27 bytes removed /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c: tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock | -32 tcp_v6_parse_md5_keys | -24 2 functions changed, 56 bytes removed /tmp/ipv6.ko.after: 5 functions changed, 2 bytes added, 135 bytes removed [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[IPV6]: Per-interface statistics support.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
For IP MIB (RFC4293). Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2006-12-02[NET]: Turn nfmark into generic markThomas Graf
nfmark is being used in various subsystems and has become the defacto mark field for all kinds of packets. Therefore it makes sense to rename it to `mark' and remove the dependency on CONFIG_NETFILTER. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[IPV6]: ip6_output annotationsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[IPV6]: flowlabels are net-endianAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[IPV6] NDISC: Add proxy_ndp sysctl.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
We do not always need proxy NDP functionality even we enable forwarding. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[IPV6]: Don't forward packets to proxied link-local address.Ville Nuorvala
Proxying router can't forward traffic sent to link-local address, so signal the sender and discard the packet. This behavior is clarified by Mobile IPv6 specification (RFC3775) but might be required for all proxying router. Based on MIPL2 kernel patch. Signed-off-by: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2006-09-22[IPV6] NDISC: Handle NDP messages to proxied addresses.Ville Nuorvala
It is required to respond to NDP messages sent directly to the "target" unicast address. Proxying node (router) is required to handle such messages. To achieve this, check if the packet in forwarding patch is NDP message. With this patch, the proxy neighbor entries are always looked up in forwarding path. We may want to optimize further. Based on MIPL2 kernel patch. Signed-off-by: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2006-09-22[IPV6] IPSEC: Support sending with Mobile IPv6 extension headers.Masahide NAKAMURA
Mobile IPv6 defines home address option as an option of destination options header. It is placed before fragment header then ip6_find_1stfragopt() is fixed to know about it. Home address option also carries final source address of the flow, then outbound AH calculation should take care of it like routing header case. Based on MIPL2 kernel patch. Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[XFRM] STATE: Support non-fragment outbound transformation headers.Masahide NAKAMURA
For originated outbound IPv6 packets which will fragment, ip6_append_data() should know length of extension headers before sending them and the length is carried by dst_entry. IPv6 IPsec headers fragment then transformation was designed to place all headers after fragment header. OTOH Mobile IPv6 extension headers do not fragment then it is a good idea to make dst_entry have non-fragment length to tell it to ip6_append_data(). Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[IPV6]: Cache source address as well in ipv6_pinfo{}.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Based on MIPL2 kernel patch. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[IPV6] ROUTE: Introduce a helper to check route validity.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETEPatrick McHardy
Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for incoming packets, device supplied full checksum). Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-13[INET]: Use pskb_trim_unique when trimming paged unique skbsHerbert Xu
The IPv4/IPv6 datagram output path was using skb_trim to trim paged packets because they know that the packet has not been cloned yet (since the packet hasn't been given to anything else in the system). This broke because skb_trim no longer allows paged packets to be trimmed. Paged packets must be given to one of the pskb_trim functions instead. This patch adds a new pskb_trim_unique function to cover the IPv4/IPv6 datagram output path scenario and replaces the corresponding skb_trim calls with it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[IPV6]: SNMPv2 "ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates" counter errorWei Dong
When I tested linux kernel 2.6.71.7 about statistics "ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates", and found that it couldn't increase correctly. The criteria is RFC 2465: ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of output datagram fragments that have been generated as a result of fragmentation at this output interface." ::= { ipv6IfStatsEntry 15 } I think there are two issues in Linux kernel. 1st: RFC2465 specifies the counter is "The number of output datagram fragments...". I think increasing this counter after output a fragment successfully is better. And it should not be increased even though a fragment is created but failed to output. 2nd: If we send a big ICMP/ICMPv6 echo request to a host, and receive ICMP/ICMPv6 echo reply consisted of some fragments. As we know that in Linux kernel first fragmentation occurs in ICMP layer(maybe saying transport layer is better), but this is not the "real" fragmentation,just do some "pre-fragment" -- allocate space for date, and form a frag_list, etc. The "real" fragmentation happens in IP layer -- set offset and MF flag and so on. So I think in "fast path" for ip_fragment/ip6_fragment, if we send a fragment which "pre-fragment" by upper layer we should also increase "ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates". Signed-off-by: Wei Dong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[IPV6]: SNMPv2 "ipv6IfStatsInHdrErrors" counter errorWei Dong
When I tested Linux kernel 2.6.17.7 about statistics "ipv6IfStatsInHdrErrors", found that this counter couldn't increase correctly. The criteria is RFC2465: ipv6IfStatsInHdrErrors OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter3 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of input datagrams discarded due to errors in their IPv6 headers, including version number mismatch, other format errors, hop count exceeded, errors discovered in processing their IPv6 options, etc." ::= { ipv6IfStatsEntry 2 } When I send TTL=0 and TTL=1 a packet to a router which need to be forwarded, router just sends an ICMPv6 message to tell the sender that TIME_EXCEED and HOPLIMITS, but no increments for this counter(in the function ip6_forward). Signed-off-by: Wei Dong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[IPV6]: Audit all ip6_dst_lookup/ip6_dst_store callsHerbert Xu
The current users of ip6_dst_lookup can be divided into two classes: 1) The caller holds no locks and is in user-context (UDP). 2) The caller does not want to lookup the dst cache at all. The second class covers everyone except UDP because most people do the cache lookup directly before calling ip6_dst_lookup. This patch adds ip6_sk_dst_lookup for the first class. Similarly ip6_dst_store users can be divded into those that need to take the socket dst lock and those that don't. This patch adds __ip6_dst_store for those (everyone except UDP/datagram) that don't need an extra lock. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-08[NET] gso: Add skb_is_gsoHerbert Xu
This patch adds the wrapper function skb_is_gso which can be used instead of directly testing skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size. This makes things a little nicer and allows us to change the primary key for indicating whether an skb is GSO (if we ever want to do that). Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6 [NET]: Generalise TSO-specific bits from skb_setup_caps [IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6 [IPV6]: Remove redundant length check on input [NETFILTER]: SCTP conntrack: fix crash triggered by packet without chunks [TG3]: Update version and reldate [TG3]: Add TSO workaround using GSO [TG3]: Turn on hw fix for ASF problems [TG3]: Add rx BD workaround [TG3]: Add tg3_netif_stop() in vlan functions [TCP]: Reset gso_segs if packet is dodgy
2006-06-30[IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6Herbert Xu
This patch adds GSO support for IPv6 and TCPv6. This is based on a patch by Ananda Raju <Ananda.Raju@neterion.com>. His original description is: This patch enables TSO over IPv6. Currently Linux network stacks restricts TSO over IPv6 by clearing of the NETIF_F_TSO bit from "dev->features". This patch will remove this restriction. This patch will introduce a new flag NETIF_F_TSO6 which will be used to check whether device supports TSO over IPv6. If device support TSO over IPv6 then we don't clear of NETIF_F_TSO and which will make the TCP layer to create TSO packets. Any device supporting TSO over IPv6 will set NETIF_F_TSO6 flag in "dev->features" along with NETIF_F_TSO. In case when user disables TSO using ethtool, NETIF_F_TSO will get cleared from "dev->features". So even if we have NETIF_F_TSO6 we don't get TSO packets created by TCP layer. SKB_GSO_TCPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_TCP to make it generic GSO packet. SKB_GSO_UDPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_UDP as UFO is not a IPv4 feature. UFO is supported over IPv6 also The following table shows there is significant improvement in throughput with normal frames and CPU usage for both normal and jumbo. -------------------------------------------------- | | 1500 | 9600 | | ------------------|-------------------| | | thru CPU | thru CPU | -------------------------------------------------- | TSO OFF | 2.00 5.5% id | 5.66 20.0% id | -------------------------------------------------- | TSO ON | 2.63 78.0 id | 5.67 39.0% id | -------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-23[NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buffHerbert Xu
Having separate fields in sk_buff for TSO/UFO (tso_size/ufo_size) is not going to scale if we add any more segmentation methods (e.g., DCCP). So let's merge them. They were used to tell the protocol of a packet. This function has been subsumed by the new gso_type field. This is essentially a set of netdev feature bits (shifted by 16 bits) that are required to process a specific skb. As such it's easy to tell whether a given device can process a GSO skb: you just have to and the gso_type field and the netdev's features field. I've made gso_type a conjunction. The idea is that you have a base type (e.g., SKB_GSO_TCPV4) that can be modified further to support new features. For example, if we add a hardware TSO type that supports ECN, they would declare NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN. All TSO packets with CWR set would have a gso_type of SKB_GSO_TCPV4 | SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN while all other TSO packets would be SKB_GSO_TCPV4. This means that only the CWR packets need to be emulated in software. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[SECMARK]: Add secmark support to core networking.James Morris
Add a secmark field to the skbuff structure, to allow security subsystems to place security markings on network packets. This is similar to the nfmark field, except is intended for implementing security policy, rather than than networking policy. This patch was already acked in principle by Dave Miller. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[IPSEC] xfrm: Abstract out encapsulation modesHerbert Xu
This patch adds the structure xfrm_mode. It is meant to represent the operations carried out by transport/tunnel modes. By doing this we allow additional encapsulation modes to be added without clogging up the xfrm_input/xfrm_output paths. Candidate modes include 4-to-6 tunnel mode, 6-to-4 tunnel mode, and BEET modes. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-23[IPV6]: ip6_xmit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr checkPatrick McHardy
The sk argument to ip6_xmit is never NULL nowadays since the skb->priority assigment expects a valid socket. Coverity #354 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IPV6]: remove useless test in ip6_append_dataDave Jones
We've already dereferenced 'np' a dozen times at this point, so it's safe to say it's not null. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IPV6]: Fix some code/comment formatting in ip6_dst_output().David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-12[IPV4/6]: Fix UFO error propagationPatrick McHardy
When ufo_append_data fails err is uninitialized, but returned back. Strangely gcc doesn't notice it. Coverity #901 and #902 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-24[IPV6]: Do not ignore IPV6_MTU socket option.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Based on patch by Hoerdt Mickael <hoerdt@clarinet.u-strasbg.fr>. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yosufuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-09[IPV6]: Set skb->priority in ip6_output.cPatrick McHardy
Set skb->priority = sk->sk_priority as in raw.c and IPv4. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03[IPV6]: Export some symbols for DCCPv6Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-29[IPV6]: make two functions staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-09[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.Yasuyuki Kozakai
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>