Stateless NAT is useful in controlled environments where restrictions are
placed on through traffic such that we don't need connection tracking to
correctly NAT protocol-specific data.
In particular, this is of interest when the number of flows or the number
of addresses being NATed is large, or if connection tracking information
has to be replicated and where it is not practical to do so.
Previously we had stateless NAT functionality which was integrated into
the IPv4 routing subsystem. This was a great solution as long as the NAT
worked on a subnet to subnet basis such that the number of NAT rules was
relatively small. The reason is that for SNAT the routing based system
had to perform a linear scan through the rules.
If the number of rules is large then major renovations would have take
place in the routing subsystem to make this practical.
For the time being, the least intrusive way of achieving this is to use
the u32 classifier written by Alexey Kuznetsov along with the actions
infrastructure implemented by Jamal Hadi Salim.
The following patch is an attempt at this problem by creating a new nat
action that can be invoked from u32 hash tables which would allow large
number of stateless NAT rules that can be used/updated in constant time.
The actual NAT code is mostly based on the previous stateless NAT code
written by Alexey. In future we might be able to utilise the protocol
NAT code from netfilter to improve support for other protocols.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The NET_CLS_ACT option is now a full replacement for NET_CLS_POLICE,
remove the old code. The config option will be kept around to select
the equivalent NET_CLS_ACT options for a short time to allow easier
upgrades.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The generic estimator is always built in anways and all the config options
does is prevent including a minimal amount of code for setting it up.
Additionally the option is already automatically selected for most cases.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add the new sch_rr qdisc for multiqueue network device support. Allow
sch_prio and sch_rr to be compiled with or without multiqueue hardware
support.
sch_rr is part of sch_prio, and is referenced from MODULE_ALIAS. This
was done since sch_prio and sch_rr only differ in their dequeue
routine.
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Get rid of the manual clock source selection mess and use ktime. Also
use a scalar representation, which allows to clean up pkt_sched.h a bit
more and results in less ktime_to_ns() calls in most cases.
The PSCHED_US2JIFFIE/PSCHED_JIFFIE2US macros are implemented quite
inefficient by this patch, following patches will convert all qdiscs
to hrtimers and get rid of them entirely.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based on patch by Patrick McHardy.
Add a new option, NET_SCH_FIFO, which provides a simple fifo qdisc
without requiring CONFIG_NET_SCHED.
The d80211 stack needs a generic fifo qdisc for WME. At present it
uses net/d80211/fifo_qdisc.c which is functionally equivalent to
sch_fifo.c. This patch will allow the d80211 stack to remove
net/d80211/fifo_qdisc.c and use sch_fifo.c instead.
Signed-off-by: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
nfmark is being used in various subsystems and has become
the defacto mark field for all kinds of packets. Therefore
it makes sense to rename it to `mark' and remove the
dependency on CONFIG_NETFILTER.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This option should IMHO no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The default of using jiffies is very bad and results in
underutilization except with very low bandwidth.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David Gómez wrote:
> I found out that if i select NET_CLS_ROUTE4, save my changes and exit
> menuconfig, execute again make menuconfig and go to QoS options, then the new
> available options are visible. So menuconfig has some problem refreshing
> contents :?
No, they were there before too, but you have to go up one level to see
them.
It's better in 2.6.15-rc1-git5, but the menu structure is still a little
messed up, the patch below properly indents all menu entries.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make "QoS and/or fair queueing" have its own menu, it's too big to be
inlined into "Network options". Remove the obsolete NET_QOS option.
Automatically select NET_CLS if needed. Do the same for NET_ESTIMATOR
but allow it to be selected manually for statistical purposes. Add
comments to separate queueing from classification. Fix dependencies
and ordering of classifiers. Improve descriptions/help texts and
remove outdated pieces.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Opterons with frequency scaling have fully unsynchronized TSCs
running at different frequencies, so using TSCs there is not a good idea.
Also some other x86 boxes have this problem. gettimeofday should be good
enough, so just disable it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move the protocol specific config options out to the specific protocols.
With this change net/Kconfig now starts to become readable and serve as a
good basis for further re-structuring.
The menu structure is left almost intact, except that indention is
fixed in most cases. Most visible are the INET changes where several
"depends on INET" are replaced with a single ifdef INET / endif pair.
Several new files were created to accomplish this change - they are
small but serve the purpose that config options are now distributed
out where they belongs.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Do not present these confusing new options to the user
unless he picked some facility that makes use of it,
such as NET_EMATCH_TEXT.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a trivial fix for a typo on Kconfig, where the Generic Random Early
Detection algorithm is abbreviated as RED instead of GRED.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
And provide an example simply action in order to
demonstrate usage.
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
