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Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +00001TODO List for netfilter / iptables.
2Currently maintained by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
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4Please inform me, if you want to work on any of the TODO items, so I
5can update this list and thus prevent two people doing the same work.
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Harald Weltede1578f2001-05-23 23:07:33 +00007CVS ID: $Id: TODO,v 1.35 2001/05/09 15:45:24 jamesm Exp $
Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +00008
Harald Welte3666e0e2001-04-12 22:24:29 +00009IMPORTANT issues:
10- solution for nostate / notrack (we don't want to track specific conn's)
11- multiple related connections [HW]
12- ip_conntrack rmmod loop (sometimes, Yan's patch?)
13- conntrack helper not called for first packet (udp!)
Harald Welte90ba5ec2001-05-03 21:10:24 +000014- why is nat_helper's expect() function called for all helpers? [HW]
Harald Welte3666e0e2001-04-12 22:24:29 +000015X full tcp window tracking incompatibility with nat helpers [HW]
Harald Welte90ba5ec2001-05-03 21:10:24 +000016? Hard lockup with ip_queue under heavy load (was possibly some unrelated 2.3
17 problem) [JM]
Harald Welte3666e0e2001-04-12 22:24:29 +000018- mangle table should use all five netfilter hooks [HW]
Harald Welte90ba5ec2001-05-03 21:10:24 +000019X merge EPRT / EPSV ftp stuff [RR] (reimplemented in ftp-fixes, included 2.4.4)
Harald Welte61b19892001-04-24 00:02:33 +000020X runme error with IPv6 stuff! [HW]
21- wrong 'Out of window' error message from tcp-windowtracking [HW]
Harald Welte90ba5ec2001-05-03 21:10:24 +000022X SMP conntrack race [RR] (ftp-fixes, included in 2.4.4)
Harald Welte6fc86582001-05-05 04:39:39 +000023- static compiling/linking of iptables (for router-on-a-disk) [HW]
24- IPv6 testing (MARK, LOG, REJECT) [HW]
Harald Weltede1578f2001-05-23 23:07:33 +000025x iptables-save doesn't work with eth+ style multiple IF stuff [HW]
26X reject-with on REJECT target doesn't work [HW]
27- IPv6 REJECT target doesn't have extension plugin ?!?
28- colon inside prefix doesn't work
Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +000029
Harald Welte3666e0e2001-04-12 22:24:29 +000030NICE to have:
31- multicast connection tracking
Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +000032- sysctl support for ftp-multi, irc-conntrack/nat, ftp-fxp
33- integrate HOPLIMIT for ipv6 in patch-o-matic [HW]
Harald Welte90ba5ec2001-05-03 21:10:24 +000034X static 1:1 NAT (only ip address NAT in both directions) (NETMAP target)
Harald Welte302ca3e2001-02-07 16:27:20 +000035- u32 classifier (port from tc -> iptables) [YU]
James Morris90eca6a2001-05-03 11:53:27 +000036X pktlen match (not needed, when u32 available) [FM]
Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +000037- MARK match / target with boolean OR / AND (to use nfmark bitwise)
Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +000038- documentation for libiptc
Harald Welte518abc12001-02-18 16:12:45 +000039- port conntrack to IPv6 (code reuse?) [BB]
40X port matches (owner, limit, multiport, owner) to IPv6 [RJ]
Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +000041- make patch-o-matic more generic (any subdir), and reversible
42- CONFIG_NF_IP_NAT_LOCAL
Harald Weltec67e5f82001-01-24 12:33:49 +000043- fix and test the netfilter bridging stuff
Harald Welte3666e0e2001-04-12 22:24:29 +000044X integrate the ipt_NETLINK target from gianni@ecsc.co.uk [HW]
Harald Welte302ca3e2001-02-07 16:27:20 +000045X integrate PSD target / port it as match [HW]
Harald Weltedd369152001-02-02 10:53:46 +000046- various NAT performance optimizations possible! (which? ask HW)
James Morris90eca6a2001-05-03 11:53:27 +000047- ip_nat_ident module [FM]
Harald Weltede6aaeb2001-03-26 18:06:04 +000048- provide daily CVS snapshots via ftp [HW]
Harald Welte2ca59042001-02-28 11:15:01 +000049- 10.1.2.3.4 is accepted as a valid IP address by iptables -s / -d ?
Harald Welte90ba5ec2001-05-03 21:10:24 +000050- make iptables / ip6tables use the same codebase (as libiptc) [KA]
James Morris266ffcc2001-05-09 15:45:24 +000051- string_to_number() does not work correctly for unsigned ints [JM]
Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +000052
Harald Welte3666e0e2001-04-12 22:24:29 +000053FUTURE extensions:
Harald Welteb961e6b2001-05-05 00:01:55 +000054- dealing with fragmented expectation-causes (i.e. DCC chat split
55 over two packets, etc.)
Harald Welte3666e0e2001-04-12 22:24:29 +000056- conntrack / nat failover [HW]
57- brainstorming about 2.5 conntrack code
58- netlink interface for conntrack manipulation from userspace [HW]
59- unified nfnetlink for queue,ulog,conntrack (and more?) (2.5 issue)
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Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +000061======================================================================
Rusty Russellbdbcc1c2001-04-23 15:25:52 +000062[RR] Paul 'Rusty' Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Harald Welteaf4ec452001-01-24 01:15:16 +000063[MB] Marc Boucher <marc@mbsi.ca>
64[JM] James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
65[HW] Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Harald Welte302ca3e2001-02-07 16:27:20 +000066[YU] Yon Uriarte <ukl2@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Harald Welte518abc12001-02-18 16:12:45 +000067[RJ] Jan Rekorajski <baggins@mimuw.edu.pl>
68[BB] Bastian Blank <bastianb@gmx.de>
James Morris90eca6a2001-05-03 11:53:27 +000069[FM] Fabrice Marie <fabrice@celestix.com>
Harald Welte90ba5ec2001-05-03 21:10:24 +000070[KA] Kiz-Szabo Andras <kisza@sch.bme.hu>