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Re: [Patch]: IPv6 Connection Tracking

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Subject: Re: [Patch]: IPv6 Connection Tracking
From: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:10:04 +0900 (JST)
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Hi, Harald.

Thank you for your concern, and I understand what you say.

> To summarize, I see the following options:
> 
> 1) submit ip6_conntrack to the 2.6.x kernel
>    We would then need somebody committe to maintaining it, assuring
>    it keeps in sync with the work done on ip_conntrack.  I do not want
>    to put the burden of ip_conntrack / ip6_conntrack synchronization on
>    everybody who submits patches/bugfixes/...
> 
> 2) keep ip6_conntrack in patch-o-matic and start work on a l3
>    independent conntrack system.
>    This would give more users to the code, since most advanced 
>    netfilter users are using patch-o-matic anyway.
> 

I interested on a L3 independent connection tracking.
Could you show me about concrete loadmap and the scheme of nf_conntrack ?

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Yasuyuki KOZAKAI

Communication Platform Laboratory,
Corporate Research & Development Center,
Toshiba Corporation

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