Patrick McHardy's blog

The iptables 1.4.1 release got delayed a bit by my notebook breaking 5 minutes after getting on the train to LinuxTag, so I couldn't do any real work the entire last week. I hoped we could test the header fixes last week and release on Monday, but they really need some wider testing, so I'll release another -rc today and hopefully the final release in about a week.

On the kernel side, I'm working on getting the things I would like to merge in 2.6.27 into shape. The netfilter things in my queue so far are mostly minor cleanups and feature additions, with the exception of ebtables IPv6 support from Kuo-lang Tseng.

The non-netfilter things are:

• A GARP implementation with a GVRP application on top. Maybe I'll also add GMRP support.
• Some VLAN patches to fix inconsistencies related to hardware tagging/stripping/filtering and packet sockets.
• A DRR packet scheduler.
• Some patches for dynamic packet scheduler class hash sizing for better scalability that I've been carrying for at least a year.