On 25 Oct 2002, Cedric Blancher wrote: > Le jeu 24/10/2002 =E0 22:06, Jason Dixon a =E9crit : > > I'm about to become a migrated iptables user, but I had a couple of > > questions about the stateful abilities of netfilter. First, it appea= rs > > that true sequence number analysis is available via this "patch-o-mat= ic" > > thingy. At what point does this feature become part of the default > > release? >=20 > Well, you should ask netfilter-devel mailing list ;) > But, as the patch is still in patch-o-matic extra section, I do not > think it will be submitted to kernel soon. >=20 According to the last mails I read on the list on this topic, the=20 tcp-window-tracking.patch is waiting for someone to take a look at=20 problems with very slow mail deliveries that arose because of the patch.=20 After that, Josefsson(i think?) sent out a new version of the patch that=20 should hopefully fix the problem.... that's the last I heard.=20 If the new patch fixes the problem and everything seems to work it should= =20 go into mainstream kernel rather soon actually. ---- Oskar Andreasson http://www.frozentux.net http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net http://ipsysctl-tutorial.frozentux.net mailto:blueflux@koffein.net
