On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 19:46, cookie wrote: > Hello- > I am new to the list. I have been using netfilter for some time but > had > always used the default setup. > Recently I came across Hisham Mardam Bey's website that details "Load > Balancing > Across Multiple Links" > http://linux.com.lb/wiki/index.pl? > node=Load%20Balancing%20Across%20Multiple%20Links > and saw the first use of the random match. > I was anxious to try it, but I am running Fedora Core and a 2.6 > kernel. > And after looking online and inside pomng-20040621, I came to the > conclusion that > the random match was only available to the 2.4 kernel. But being new > to using pom, > I thought it would be wise to check with everyone before I threw in the > towel. > Thanks > Brian Cook heh--someone just asked this a few days ago (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter&m=109876208621196&w=2) the quick test for 2.6 compatibility in POM is to look in the patch directory for a "linux-2.6" directory. if it's not there, you can check CVS (again--no dice on the random patch). last ditch is to search the netfilter-devel archives to see what sort of activity might be taking place. i think i recall some talk about "random" and "nth" being merged into a single module, but never saw anything come out of that. speaking of which, might "nth" help your situation (as it is ported to 2.6)? -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
