aha/net
Herbert Xu b421995235 [PKT_SCHED]: Add stateless NAT
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>
2007-10-10 16:53:11 -07:00
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9p 9p: fix bad error path in conversion routines 2007-08-23 10:25:05 -05:00
802 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
8021q [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
appletalk [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
atm [ATM] net/atm/lec.c: printk warning fix 2007-10-10 16:52:54 -07:00
ax25 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
bluetooth [BLUETOOTH]: Make hidp_setup_input() return int 2007-10-10 16:52:39 -07:00
bridge [ETHTOOL] Provide default behaviors for a few ethtool sub-ioctls 2007-10-10 16:51:17 -07:00
core [NETNS]: Simplify the network namespace list locking rules. 2007-10-10 16:52:55 -07:00
dccp [CCID3]: Remove ifdef surrounding BUG_ON 2007-10-10 16:52:45 -07:00
decnet [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation. 2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
econet [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation. 2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
ethernet [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
ieee80211 [IEEE80211]: Fix softmac lockdep reports. 2007-10-10 16:52:22 -07:00
ipv4 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
ipv6 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
ipx [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace. 2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
irda [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF() 2007-10-10 16:51:42 -07:00
iucv [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe. 2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
key [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe. 2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
lapb [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
llc [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF() 2007-10-10 16:51:42 -07:00
mac80211 [PATCH] mac80211: fix virtual interface locking 2007-10-10 16:53:00 -07:00
netfilter [NET]: Wrap hard_header_parse 2007-10-10 16:52:51 -07:00
netlabel [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute 2007-10-10 16:49:16 -07:00
netlink [NETLINK]: the temp variable name max is ambiguous 2007-10-10 16:51:25 -07:00
netrom [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
packet [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
rfkill [RFKILL]: Add support for ultrawideband 2007-10-10 16:49:23 -07:00
rose [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
rxrpc [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe. 2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
sched [PKT_SCHED]: Add stateless NAT 2007-10-10 16:53:11 -07:00
sctp [SCTP]: Tie ADD-IP and AUTH functionality as required by spec. 2007-10-10 16:51:33 -07:00
sunrpc [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace 2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
tipc [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation. 2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
unix [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe. 2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
wanrouter [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace 2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
wireless [WIRELESS]: Fix Kconfig. 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
x25 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace. 2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
xfrm [NET]: Make the loopback device per network namespace. 2007-10-10 16:52:49 -07:00
compat.c O_CLOEXEC for SCM_RIGHTS 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Kconfig [NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support. 2007-10-10 16:52:46 -07:00
Makefile 9p: Reorganization of 9p file system code 2007-07-14 15:13:40 -05:00
nonet.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
socket.c [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace. 2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
sysctl_net.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
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