| TODO List for netfilter / iptables. |
| Currently maintained by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> |
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| Please inform me, if you want to work on any of the TODO items, so I |
| can update this list and thus prevent two people doing the same work. |
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| CVS ID: $Id: TODO,v 1.30 2001/04/25 14:34:28 jamesm Exp $ |
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| IMPORTANT issues: |
| - solution for nostate / notrack (we don't want to track specific conn's) |
| - multiple related connections [HW] |
| - ip_conntrack rmmod loop (sometimes, Yan's patch?) |
| - conntrack helper not called for first packet (udp!) |
| - why is nat_helper's expect() function called for all helpers? |
| X full tcp window tracking incompatibility with nat helpers [HW] |
| ? Hard lockup with ip_queue under heavy load (was possibly some unrelated 2.3 problem) [JM] |
| - mangle table should use all five netfilter hooks [HW] |
| - merge EPRT / EPSV ftp stuff |
| X runme error with IPv6 stuff! [HW] |
| - wrong 'Out of window' error message from tcp-windowtracking [HW] |
| - SMP conntrack race [RR] |
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| NICE to have: |
| - multicast connection tracking |
| - sysctl support for ftp-multi, irc-conntrack/nat, ftp-fxp |
| - integrate HOPLIMIT for ipv6 in patch-o-matic [HW] |
| - static 1:1 NAT (only ip address NAT in both directions) |
| - u32 classifier (port from tc -> iptables) [YU] |
| X pktlen match (not needed, when u32 available) [FM] |
| - MARK match / target with boolean OR / AND (to use nfmark bitwise) |
| - documentation for libiptc |
| - port conntrack to IPv6 (code reuse?) [BB] |
| X port matches (owner, limit, multiport, owner) to IPv6 [RJ] |
| - make patch-o-matic more generic (any subdir), and reversible |
| - CONFIG_NF_IP_NAT_LOCAL |
| - fix and test the netfilter bridging stuff |
| X integrate the ipt_NETLINK target from gianni@ecsc.co.uk [HW] |
| X integrate PSD target / port it as match [HW] |
| - various NAT performance optimizations possible! (which? ask HW) |
| - ip_nat_ident module [FM] |
| - provide daily CVS snapshots via ftp [HW] |
| - 10.1.2.3.4 is accepted as a valid IP address by iptables -s / -d ? |
| - make iptables / ip6tables use the same codebase (as libiptc) |
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| FUTURE extensions: |
| - conntrack / nat failover [HW] |
| - brainstorming about 2.5 conntrack code |
| - netlink interface for conntrack manipulation from userspace [HW] |
| - unified nfnetlink for queue,ulog,conntrack (and more?) (2.5 issue) |
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| ====================================================================== |
| [RR] Paul 'Rusty' Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
| [MB] Marc Boucher <marc@mbsi.ca> |
| [JM] James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> |
| [HW] Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> |
| [YU] Yon Uriarte <ukl2@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> |
| [RJ] Jan Rekorajski <baggins@mimuw.edu.pl> |
| [BB] Bastian Blank <bastianb@gmx.de> |
| [FM] Fabrice Marie <fabrice@celestix.com> |