From: Ben Greear <greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public•gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:32:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4F6332.50606@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263481549.23480.24.camel@bigi>
On 01/14/2010 07:05 AM, jamal wrote:
>
> Ive had an equivalent discussion with B Greear (CCed) at one point on
> something similar, curious if you solve things differently - couldnt
> tell from the patch if you address it.
> Comments inline:
>
> On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 15:05 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> The attached largish patch adds support for "conntrack zones",
>> which are virtual conntrack tables that can be used to seperate
>> connections from different zones, allowing to handle multiple
>> connections with equal identities in conntrack and NAT.
>>
>> A zone is simply a numerical identifier associated with a network
>> device that is incorporated into the various hashes and used to
>> distinguish entries in addition to the connection tuples. Additionally
>> it is used to seperate conntrack defragmentation queues. An iptables
>> target for the raw table could be used alternatively to the network
>> device for assigning conntrack entries to zones.
>>
>>
>> This is mainly useful when connecting multiple private networks using
>> the same addresses (which unfortunately happens occasionally)
>
> Agreed that this would be a main driver of such a feature.
> Which means that you need zones (or whatever noun other people use) to
> work on not just netfilter, but also routing, ipsec etc.
> As a digression: this is trivial to solve with network namespaces.
For small or simple cases, this may be true..but there is a lot of work
to make a complex user-space app that manages arbitrary amounts of interfaces
routing tables in an arbitrary amount of network namespaces. With the contrack-zones
approach, user-space apps do not require any significant changes, and you do not
need the rest of the namespace overhead to accomplish the task.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public•gmane.org>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-14 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-14 14:05 RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones" Patrick McHardy
2010-01-14 15:05 ` jamal
2010-01-14 15:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-14 17:33 ` jamal
2010-01-15 10:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-15 15:19 ` jamal
2010-02-22 20:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-22 21:55 ` jamal
2010-02-22 23:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1wry46es9.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-23 13:27 ` jamal
2010-02-23 14:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-23 14:20 ` jamal
2010-02-23 20:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-23 23:09 ` jamal
2010-02-24 1:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-25 20:57 ` [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing control Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-25 21:31 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-02-25 21:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-25 22:13 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-02-25 22:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 20:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-25 21:46 ` Matt Helsley
2010-02-25 21:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 0:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 1:09 ` Matt Helsley
2010-02-26 1:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 3:15 ` [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing control. v2 Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m18wagy9f3.fsf_-_-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-03 20:29 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-03-03 20:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1pr3t2fvl.fsf_-_-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-26 21:13 ` [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing control Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 21:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 21:34 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 21:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 21:58 ` Oren Laadan
2010-02-26 22:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 22:52 ` Oren Laadan
2010-02-26 23:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-27 8:30 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-27 9:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1mxyvrqvk.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-27 9:21 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-27 9:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-27 16:16 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-27 19:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-27 19:29 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-27 19:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-28 22:05 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-01 19:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-01 21:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-02 13:10 ` Cedric Le Goater
2010-03-02 15:03 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-03-02 15:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-02 21:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-02 21:19 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-03-02 22:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-03 0:07 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-03-03 0:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-03 15:38 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-03 19:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-04 21:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-04 22:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-03 16:50 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-03-03 20:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-05 19:18 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-03-05 20:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-06 14:47 ` Daniel Lezcano
[not found] ` <4B926B1B.5070207-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-06 20:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1aaulyy5c.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-06 21:26 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 8:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 16:54 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 17:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 19:57 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 20:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 20:42 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 20:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 21:12 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 21:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 21:49 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-08 22:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-09 10:03 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-09 10:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-09 10:26 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-10 21:16 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 17:07 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-08 17:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 17:47 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-03 20:59 ` Oren Laadan
2010-03-03 21:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1bpfbwuze.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-26 21:35 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 21:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-23 23:49 ` RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones" Matt Helsley
2010-02-24 1:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-24 1:39 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-01-14 18:32 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2010-01-15 15:03 ` jamal
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