From 9fb9cbb1082d6b31fb45aa1a14432449a0df6cf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasuyuki Kozakai Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:38:16 -0800 Subject: [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem. The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only handle ipv4. There were basically two choices present to add connection tracking support for ipv6. We could either duplicate all of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol (TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written. In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3 protocol. The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6, which is also cured here. For example, these issues include: 1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP messages 2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag" (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply isn't feasible in ipv6 3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking design 4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack and it is feature complete. Once that occurs, the old conntrack stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will fully kill it off 6 months later. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai Signed-off-by: Harald Welte Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig') diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig index 7d917e4..9d3c8b5 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig @@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ menu "IP: Netfilter Configuration" depends on INET && NETFILTER +config NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 + tristate "IPv4 support for new connection tracking (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK + ---help--- + Connection tracking keeps a record of what packets have passed + through your machine, in order to figure out how they are related + into connections. + + This is IPv4 support on Layer 3 independent connection tracking. + Layer 3 independent connection tracking is experimental scheme + which generalize ip_conntrack to support other layer 3 protocols. + + To compile it as a module, choose M here. If unsure, say N. + # connection tracking, helpers and protocols config IP_NF_CONNTRACK tristate "Connection tracking (required for masq/NAT)" @@ -209,8 +223,8 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_PKTTYPE tristate "Packet type match support" depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES help - Packet type matching allows you to match a packet by - its "class", eg. BROADCAST, MULTICAST, ... + Packet type matching allows you to match a packet by + its "class", eg. BROADCAST, MULTICAST, ... Typical usage: iptables -A INPUT -m pkttype --pkt-type broadcast -j LOG @@ -317,7 +331,8 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS config IP_NF_MATCH_HELPER tristate "Helper match support" - depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK && IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK || NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 help Helper matching allows you to match packets in dynamic connections tracked by a conntrack-helper, ie. ip_conntrack_ftp @@ -326,7 +341,8 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_HELPER config IP_NF_MATCH_STATE tristate "Connection state match support" - depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK && IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK || NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 help Connection state matching allows you to match packets based on their relationship to a tracked connection (ie. previous packets). This @@ -336,7 +352,8 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_STATE config IP_NF_MATCH_CONNTRACK tristate "Connection tracking match support" - depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK && IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK || NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 help This is a general conntrack match module, a superset of the state match. @@ -422,7 +439,8 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_COMMENT config IP_NF_MATCH_CONNMARK tristate 'Connection mark match support' - depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK && IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK || (NF_CONNTRACK_MARK && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4) help This option adds a `connmark' match, which allows you to match the connection mark value previously set for the session by `CONNMARK'. @@ -433,7 +451,8 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_CONNMARK config IP_NF_MATCH_CONNBYTES tristate 'Connection byte/packet counter match support' - depends on IP_NF_CT_ACCT && IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES + depends on IP_NF_CT_ACCT || (NF_CT_ACCT && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4) help This option adds a `connbytes' match, which allows you to match the number of bytes and/or packets for each direction within a connection. @@ -747,7 +766,8 @@ config IP_NF_TARGET_TTL config IP_NF_TARGET_CONNMARK tristate 'CONNMARK target support' - depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK && IP_NF_MANGLE + depends on IP_NF_MANGLE + depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK || (NF_CONNTRACK_MARK && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4) help This option adds a `CONNMARK' target, which allows one to manipulate the connection mark value. Similar to the MARK target, but @@ -759,7 +779,8 @@ config IP_NF_TARGET_CONNMARK config IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP tristate "CLUSTERIP target support (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK && IP_NF_IPTABLES && EXPERIMENTAL + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES && EXPERIMENTAL + depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK || (NF_CONNTRACK_MARK && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4) help The CLUSTERIP target allows you to build load-balancing clusters of network servers without having a dedicated load-balancing @@ -782,7 +803,7 @@ config IP_NF_RAW config IP_NF_TARGET_NOTRACK tristate 'NOTRACK target support' depends on IP_NF_RAW - depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK + depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK || NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 help The NOTRACK target allows a select rule to specify which packets *not* to enter the conntrack/NAT -- cgit v1.1