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<title>netfilter: xt_addrtype: replace rt6_lookup with nf_afinfo-&gt;route</title>
<updated>2011-04-04T15:01:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-04T15:01:43+00:00</published>
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This avoids pulling in the ipv6 module when using (ipv4-only) iptables
-m addrtype.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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This avoids pulling in the ipv6 module when using (ipv4-only) iptables
-m addrtype.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: xt_addrtype: ipv6 support</title>
<updated>2011-03-15T19:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fwestphal@astaro.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-15T19:17:44+00:00</published>
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The kernel will refuse certain types that do not work in ipv6 mode.
We can then add these features incrementally without risk of userspace
breakage.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fwestphal@astaro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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The kernel will refuse certain types that do not work in ipv6 mode.
We can then add these features incrementally without risk of userspace
breakage.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fwestphal@astaro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: ipt_addrtype: rename to xt_addrtype</title>
<updated>2011-03-15T19:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fwestphal@astaro.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-15T19:16:20+00:00</published>
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Followup patch will add ipv6 support.

ipt_addrtype.h is retained for compatibility reasons, but no longer used
by the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fwestphal@astaro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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Followup patch will add ipv6 support.

ipt_addrtype.h is retained for compatibility reasons, but no longer used
by the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fwestphal@astaro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: xtables: add device group match</title>
<updated>2011-02-02T23:05:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-02T23:05:43+00:00</published>
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Add a new 'devgroup' match to match on the device group of the
incoming and outgoing network device of a packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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Add a new 'devgroup' match to match on the device group of the
incoming and outgoing network device of a packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: xtables: "set" match and "SET" target support</title>
<updated>2011-02-01T14:56:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jozsef Kadlecsik</name>
<email>kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-01T14:56:00+00:00</published>
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The patch adds the combined module of the "SET" target and "set" match
to netfilter. Both the previous and the current revisions are supported.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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The patch adds the combined module of the "SET" target and "set" match
to netfilter. Both the previous and the current revisions are supported.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: ipset: IP set core support</title>
<updated>2011-02-01T14:28:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jozsef Kadlecsik</name>
<email>kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-01T14:28:35+00:00</published>
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The patch adds the IP set core support to the kernel.

The IP set core implements a netlink (nfnetlink) based protocol by which
one can create, destroy, flush, rename, swap, list, save, restore sets,
and add, delete, test elements from userspace. For simplicity (and backward
compatibilty and for not to force ip(6)tables to be linked with a netlink
library) reasons a small getsockopt-based protocol is also kept in order
to communicate with the ip(6)tables match and target.

The netlink protocol passes all u16, etc values in network order with
NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER flag. The protocol enforces the proper use of the
NLA_F_NESTED and NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER flags.

For other kernel subsystems (netfilter match and target) the API contains
the functions to add, delete and test elements in sets and the required calls
to get/put refereces to the sets before those operations can be performed.

The set types (which are implemented in independent modules) are stored
in a simple RCU protected list. A set type may have variants: for example
without timeout or with timeout support, for IPv4 or for IPv6. The sets
(i.e. the pointers to the sets) are stored in an array. The sets are
identified by their index in the array, which makes possible easy and
fast swapping of sets. The array is protected indirectly by the nfnl
mutex from nfnetlink. The content of the sets are protected by the rwlock
of the set.

There are functional differences between the add/del/test functions
for the kernel and userspace:

- kernel add/del/test: works on the current packet (i.e. one element)
- kernel test: may trigger an "add" operation  in order to fill
  out unspecified parts of the element from the packet (like MAC address)
- userspace add/del: works on the netlink message and thus possibly
  on multiple elements from the IPSET_ATTR_ADT container attribute.
- userspace add: may trigger resizing of a set

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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The patch adds the IP set core support to the kernel.

The IP set core implements a netlink (nfnetlink) based protocol by which
one can create, destroy, flush, rename, swap, list, save, restore sets,
and add, delete, test elements from userspace. For simplicity (and backward
compatibilty and for not to force ip(6)tables to be linked with a netlink
library) reasons a small getsockopt-based protocol is also kept in order
to communicate with the ip(6)tables match and target.

The netlink protocol passes all u16, etc values in network order with
NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER flag. The protocol enforces the proper use of the
NLA_F_NESTED and NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER flags.

For other kernel subsystems (netfilter match and target) the API contains
the functions to add, delete and test elements in sets and the required calls
to get/put refereces to the sets before those operations can be performed.

The set types (which are implemented in independent modules) are stored
in a simple RCU protected list. A set type may have variants: for example
without timeout or with timeout support, for IPv4 or for IPv6. The sets
(i.e. the pointers to the sets) are stored in an array. The sets are
identified by their index in the array, which makes possible easy and
fast swapping of sets. The array is protected indirectly by the nfnl
mutex from nfnetlink. The content of the sets are protected by the rwlock
of the set.

There are functional differences between the add/del/test functions
for the kernel and userspace:

- kernel add/del/test: works on the current packet (i.e. one element)
- kernel test: may trigger an "add" operation  in order to fill
  out unspecified parts of the element from the packet (like MAC address)
- userspace add/del: works on the netlink message and thus possibly
  on multiple elements from the IPSET_ATTR_ADT container attribute.
- userspace add: may trigger resizing of a set

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack_tstamp: add flow-based timestamp extension</title>
<updated>2011-01-19T15:00:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-19T15:00:07+00:00</published>
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This patch adds flow-based timestamping for conntracks. This
conntrack extension is disabled by default. Basically, we use
two 64-bits variables to store the creation timestamp once the
conntrack has been confirmed and the other to store the deletion
time. This extension is disabled by default, to enable it, you
have to:

echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp

This patch allows to save memory for user-space flow-based
loogers such as ulogd2. In short, ulogd2 does not need to
keep a hashtable with the conntrack in user-space to know
when they were created and destroyed, instead we use the
kernel timestamp. If we want to have a sane IPFIX implementation
in user-space, this nanosecs resolution timestamps are also
useful. Other custom user-space applications can benefit from
this via libnetfilter_conntrack.

This patch modifies the /proc output to display the delta time
in seconds since the flow start. You can also obtain the
flow-start date by means of the conntrack-tools.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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This patch adds flow-based timestamping for conntracks. This
conntrack extension is disabled by default. Basically, we use
two 64-bits variables to store the creation timestamp once the
conntrack has been confirmed and the other to store the deletion
time. This extension is disabled by default, to enable it, you
have to:

echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp

This patch allows to save memory for user-space flow-based
loogers such as ulogd2. In short, ulogd2 does not need to
keep a hashtable with the conntrack in user-space to know
when they were created and destroyed, instead we use the
kernel timestamp. If we want to have a sane IPFIX implementation
in user-space, this nanosecs resolution timestamps are also
useful. Other custom user-space applications can benefit from
this via libnetfilter_conntrack.

This patch modifies the /proc output to display the delta time
in seconds since the flow start. You can also obtain the
flow-start date by means of the conntrack-tools.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack snmp helper</title>
<updated>2011-01-18T17:12:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-18T17:12:24+00:00</published>
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Adding support for SNMP broadcast connection tracking. The SNMP
broadcast requests are now paired with the SNMP responses.
Thus allowing using SNMP broadcasts with firewall enabled.

Please refer to the following conversation:
http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&amp;m=125992205006600&amp;w=2

Patrick McHardy wrote:
&gt; &gt; The best solution would be to add generic broadcast tracking, the
&gt; &gt; use of expectations for this is a bit of abuse.
&gt; &gt; The second best choice I guess would be to move the help() function
&gt; &gt; to a shared module and generalize it so it can be used for both.
This patch implements the "second best choice".

Since the netbios-ns conntrack module uses the same helper
functionality as the snmp, only one helper function is added
for both snmp and netbios-ns modules into the new object -
nf_conntrack_broadcast.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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Adding support for SNMP broadcast connection tracking. The SNMP
broadcast requests are now paired with the SNMP responses.
Thus allowing using SNMP broadcasts with firewall enabled.

Please refer to the following conversation:
http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&amp;m=125992205006600&amp;w=2

Patrick McHardy wrote:
&gt; &gt; The best solution would be to add generic broadcast tracking, the
&gt; &gt; use of expectations for this is a bit of abuse.
&gt; &gt; The second best choice I guess would be to move the help() function
&gt; &gt; to a shared module and generalize it so it can be used for both.
This patch implements the "second best choice".

Since the netbios-ns conntrack module uses the same helper
functionality as the snmp, only one helper function is added
for both snmp and netbios-ns modules into the new object -
nf_conntrack_broadcast.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: Kconfig: NFQUEUE is useless without NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE</title>
<updated>2011-01-18T14:18:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-18T14:18:08+00:00</published>
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NFLOG already does the same thing for NETFILTER_NETLINK_LOG.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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NFLOG already does the same thing for NETFILTER_NETLINK_LOG.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: audit target to record accepted/dropped packets</title>
<updated>2011-01-16T17:10:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-16T17:10:28+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a new netfilter target which creates audit records
for packets traversing a certain chain.

It can be used to record packets which are rejected administraively
as follows:

  -N AUDIT_DROP
  -A AUDIT_DROP -j AUDIT --type DROP
  -A AUDIT_DROP -j DROP

a rule which would typically drop or reject a packet would then
invoke the new chain to record packets before dropping them.

  -j AUDIT_DROP

The module is protocol independant and works for iptables, ip6tables
and ebtables.

The following information is logged:
 - netfilter hook
 - packet length
 - incomming/outgoing interface
 - MAC src/dst/proto for ethernet packets
 - src/dst/protocol address for IPv4/IPv6
 - src/dst port for TCP/UDP/UDPLITE
 - icmp type/code

Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@parisplace.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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This patch adds a new netfilter target which creates audit records
for packets traversing a certain chain.

It can be used to record packets which are rejected administraively
as follows:

  -N AUDIT_DROP
  -A AUDIT_DROP -j AUDIT --type DROP
  -A AUDIT_DROP -j DROP

a rule which would typically drop or reject a packet would then
invoke the new chain to record packets before dropping them.

  -j AUDIT_DROP

The module is protocol independant and works for iptables, ip6tables
and ebtables.

The following information is logged:
 - netfilter hook
 - packet length
 - incomming/outgoing interface
 - MAC src/dst/proto for ethernet packets
 - src/dst/protocol address for IPv4/IPv6
 - src/dst port for TCP/UDP/UDPLITE
 - icmp type/code

Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@parisplace.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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