Can anyone brief me on whether there's any sort of master plan to submit the netfilter patches into the kernel base? And further, whether there's any thought to back porting them to 2.4.x? If effort is the limiting factor, then my company may be sufficiently motivated to cough up some free time. Or ... let me ask you this: I'm specifically interested in the pptp-conntrack-nat patch. I noticed that the patch modifies ip_conntrack_core.c and ip_nat_core.c. Aside from what appear to be debug statements, it looks like a net change of *two* lines of code. The rest of the patch consists of new files. Would it be possible to get only those small changes into the kernel base? Then, we'd be able to build the GRE/PPTP helpers as loadable modules and not have to patch the kernel. We're something of a value-added reseller. We bundle our system software within a linux workstation. We've so far managed to run our product on off-the-shelf distros and would prefer not to get into the business of building, shipping, and maintaining custom kernels. Thoughts would be appreciated.
