Roadmap for IPv6 stateful filtering

[KOVACS Krisztian]

  Hi,

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 14.14, Pablo Neira wrote:
> Gregor Maier wrote:
> > I just wanted to ask if there is any roadmap or a plan when (if at all)
> > stateful filtering (and maybe connection tracking) for IPv6 will be
> > available in netfilter.
> > I found a page that claimed that stateful IPv6 filtering will be
> > available in the 2.6.15 kernel release (unfortunaly I misplaced the
> > link to the page somewhere :-(  ). Is this info correct? Or is there
> > another kernel version targeted?
>
> nf_conntrack got pushed forward to 2.6.15, so you'll have that feature
> in the next release candidate.

  Unfortunately I'm not quite sure about that... It's not yet in Linus' tree 
and it did not made it into Arnaldo's net-2.6 tree either. Maybe Harald has 
more information about it, but it seems quite a bit uncertain whether or 
not it will be merged in 2.6.15...

-- 
 Regards,
  Krisztian Kovacs