| To: | "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@" <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH|RFC] IPv6 netfilter: a module for complete proxy ND support |
| From: | Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:33:58 +0100 |
| Cc: | vnuorval@xxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20040114.210427.104284595.yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Mail-followup-to: | Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@" <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, vnuorval@xxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| References: | <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401141250470.24125@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20040114.210427.104284595.yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:04:27PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote: > In article <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401141250470.24125@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Wed, 14 > Jan 2004 13:25:42 +0200 (EET)), Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@xxxxxxxxxx> says: > > > the packets for local processing. I think the cleanest solution for this > > is a netfilter module (which I have incidentally written already :) > > I don't think so. Proxy should not depend on netfilter. Where is the problem? It doesn't depend on hevyweight functions like iptables/conntrack/whatever... it just depends on the netfilter hooks in the core network stack (which are very lightweight, compared to what the rest of the packet filtering subsystem does). > --yoshfuji -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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