| 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 1.71 2003/11/06 23:20:00 laforge Exp $ |
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| IMPORTANT issues: |
| - erroneously too-fast dropped conntrack for half-open TCP connections [JK] |
| - --mac-source not working in FORWARD (manpage bug?) [BZ] |
| - locally bound udp port can still be used for MASQ/SNAT [BZ] |
| - unaligned access of nulldevname during string match [BZ] |
| - unaligned access in interface match (ip_tables core) |
| - update documentation to reflect newnat |
| - release iptables-1.3.0-test (with new libiptc for speedup) |
| - ipv6 ldp (igmp) and ndisc bypasses LOCAL_OUT hook |
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| TO BE INVESTIGATED: |
| - packet counters on sparc64 platform [BZ] |
| - conntrack helper not called for first packet (udp!) |
| - different behaviour for first packet towards an l2-unresolved ip? |
| |
| NICE to have: |
| - sysctl support for ftp-multi, irc-conntrack/nat, ftp-fxp [BZ] |
| - port conntrack to IPv6 (code reuse?) |
| - ip_nat_ident module [BZ] |
| - make iptables / ip6tables use the same codebase (as libiptc) [KA] |
| - libipq reentrancy [JM] |
| - compiling without O2 issue [BZ] |
| - libipq runtime version, do before 1.2.5 [JM] |
| - l3 independent ip_queue / ULOG (2.6) |
| - add support for IRC tracking in opposite direction |
| - Find mirrors for www.TLD.netfilter.org domains |
| - example section on homepage |
| - searchable mailinglist archives |
| - faq-o-matic system |
| |
| FUTURE extensions: |
| - dealing with fragmented expectation-causes (i.e. DCC chat split |
| over two packets, etc.) |
| - conntrack / nat failover [HW] |
| - unified nfnetlink for queue,ulog,conntrack (and more?) (2.5 issue) |
| |
| Userspace queuing for 2.5: |
| - Integration with nfnetlink. |
| - Multiple queues per protocol. |
| - Netlink broadcast support. |
| - Allow multiple reader/writers in userspace. |
| - How to handle multiple protocols (e.g. use separate queue handlers |
| or a multiplexer like ipqmpd). |
| - Peformance improvements: multipart messages, mmaped socket (possibly). |
| - Simplify queuing logic, which is quite ugly at the moment. (BC suggested |
| removing logic from kernel). |
| - Allow userspace to set nfmark. |
| - Allow userspace to set queue length etc. |
| - Possibly pass conntrack/NAT info to userspace with packet. |
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| ====================================================================== |
| [BC] Brad Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com> |
| [HW] Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> |
| [JK] Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> |
| [JM] James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> |
| [KA] Kiz-Szabo Andras <kisza@sch.bme.hu> |
| [RR] Paul 'Rusty' Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
| [BZ] Included in Bugzilla System |
