Hello Vlado,
I'm glad you find it useful, like me.
I've originally submitted my ports of
xt_ACCOUNT ( _including_ the userspace iptaccount tool )
xt_pknock ( with improved functionality over ipt_pknock 0.5 )
xt_stealth
for inclusion to xtables-addons (Xt-a) few weeks ago. So far Jan
Engelhardt, its maintainer, has added just the kernel part of ACCOUNT
to Xt-a, perhaps due to lack of time and becouse he probably didnt want
to delay release of Xt-a 1.18 .
You may try to ask him about the current status of adding iptaccount
as well as the other modules I "ported" (I'm looking forward to this too).
From what I know the troublesome part is that I didnt do the ports
in git, so he will need to pluck apart all my changes and stuff it
into git as separate commits. (Next time - if there will be such time
- I wont make this mistake again).
In the meantime, you may find the patch against Xt-a 1.17 containing
all the three above at:
ftp://ftp.unob.cz/pub/linux/patches/xtables-addons/
, and each of these in a form of separate patches against Xt-a 1.17 here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg10340.html
Best regards,
Jan
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Vlado Držík wrote:
Hello Jan,
I've noticed that you are the one who is behind porting the ACCOUNT
module to xtables-addons framework.
I'd like to thank you for this work. It's great extension that will
surely benefit from this work as less effort will be needed in future
for maintaining compatibility.
Kernel and iptables part is workig for me (at least I'm able to craete a
rule in iptables) but I'm not able to read state from this module via
iptaccount command line utility (seems that protocol changed or
something like that) and compiling the library against this new
infrastructure seems not to be so trivial for me.
So I wanted to ask you if you already have this part working.
Thanks,
Vlado
