Summary: | net-misc/l7-protocols net-misc/l7-filter-userspace no longer maintained upstream | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Eric Gisse <jowr.pi> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Andrew Savchenko <bircoph> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | bircoph |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Eric Gisse
2015-01-10 11:52:04 UTC
(In reply to Eric Gisse from comment #0) > The layer7 filtering packages do not appear to be upstream maintained > anymore. So? Do you have any issues with l7-filter-userspace > The mailing list is dead, and sourceforge hasn't been touched in ages, and > the kernel patch set will not apply to any of the kernel sources maintained > by Gentoo. There are two _separate_ solutions here: kernel and userspace. In l7-filter-userspace we support only userspace solution. Userspace solution uses NFQUEUE and CONNTRACK, which works just fine. If kernel implementation doesn't work — this problem is unrelated to l7-filter-userspace. > Is this something that would be appropriate for hard masking with an > explanatory message? Why mask a working package? Ah, ok I misunderstood. The way the l7-filter project has been documented has been entirely in terms of "this is a kernel patch" rather than "oh and by the way there's also a complete alternative userspace implementation using netfilter queues". So I said "mask please" because I was assuming these packages were dependent on that very, very dead kernel component. Since they aren't, mea culpa. I will play with this further since it isn't as dead as initial appearances suggested. |