On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:13:54PM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 02/24/2012 10:53 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > We're targeting to have this helper and others in user-space in the > > short tun. > > > > I have a patch to add user-space helper infrastructure. I expect to > > have it done soon. > > > > I think it's time to think about having helpers in user-space. > > Thanks for the response. > > Assuming the user-space connection tracking thing pans out, it sounds > like there isn't much possibility of this making it upstream. > > I'd still like to get it the module finished up. It's a useful learning > exercise, and I think it could be useful for anyone who stays on an > older kernel, "enterprise" distribution users for example. I'll be very happy if you work on the user-space version. The user-space cthelper infrastructure will be ready in two months or so. > I would *really* appreciate some feedback on the various questions that > I've posed in this thread. I think most of the questions can be replied by looking and nf_conntrack_expect.c. I'll try to find some spare time to reply some of those questions, but I don't promise anything. -- 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