On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Murat Sezgin wrote: > While I was looking for a solution in the kernel for general routing > change notification implementation, I came across your following patch. > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg24239.html > > In this email chain, you said that you found another simple solution and > implemented it in the masquerade module. I saw that commit in the upstream > kernel. > > But I think the patch you proposed before also very useful for the fast > path implementations. Because when a connection starts to flow through the > fast path, linux networking stack no longer sees those packets. Then, if > the route table is changed in some way, let?s say user add/delete a route > with the ?route? or ?ip route? command, the fast path traffic will not > aware of this change. So, if we have a notification mechanism like you > have implemented, the fast path manager module can register itself to > these events and manage its connections accordingly. > > Do you have any plan to push and merge this path to the upstream kernel? No, the patch was inefficient from conntrack point of view and finally the patch "Handle routing changes in MASQUERADE target, v4" went into the kernel: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg24276.html Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlecsik.jozsef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- 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
