On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:13:44PM -0500, Quentin Aebischer wrote: > Ok, time for an other try ! > > From : Quentin Aebischer <quentin.aebischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Basic implementation of a TIPC channel for the conntrackd daemon > (successfully tested in NOTRACK and FTFW modes). > > TIPC is a protocol that allows applications in a cluster-based > environment to communicate quickly and reliably with other > applications in the cluster. > It allows both unicast and multicast, reliable/unreliable and > datagram/stream oriented communications. > > One of its main feature's of interest here is to provide sockets > that communicates in a connectionless, yet reliable manner that > guarantees delivery of every message sent over the network. > This can be useful in the context of high-available, cluster-based > firewalls where states propagation has to be both fast and reliable. > > So far, the results are encouraging, though more tests have to > performed on different setups to enhance the implementation and > track any bugs. > > An example config file can be found in the doc/sync/tipc directory > of the conntrack-tools, along with a README file providing basic > installation instructions. Looks fine. I'm planning to add this to one git branch to test it and give it some spins before merging it to master. Let me know if you have any update in your patch before I do so. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
