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    ipvs: netfilter connection tracking changes · f4bc17cd
    Julian Anastasov authored
    	Add more code to IPVS to work with Netfilter connection
    tracking and fix some problems.
    
    - Allow IPVS to be compiled without connection tracking as in
    2.6.35 and before. This can avoid keeping conntracks for all
    IPVS connections because this costs memory. ip_vs_ftp still
    depends on connection tracking and NAT as implemented for 2.6.36.
    
    - Add sysctl var "conntrack" to enable connection tracking for
    all IPVS connections. For loaded IPVS directors it needs
    tuning of nf_conntrack_max limit.
    
    - Add IP_VS_CONN_F_NFCT connection flag to request the connection
    to use connection tracking. This allows user space to provide this
    flag, for example, in dest->conn_flags. This can be useful to
    request connection tracking per real server instead of forcing it
    for all connections with the "conntrack" sysctl. This flag is
    set currently only by ip_vs_ftp and of course by "conntrack" sysctl.
    
    - Add ip_vs_nfct.c file to hold all connection tracking code,
    by this way main code should not depend of netfilter conntrack
    support.
    
    - Return back the ip_vs_post_routing handler as in 2.6.35 and use
    skb->ipvs_property=1 to allow IPVS to work without connection
    tracking
    
    Connection tracking:
    
    - most of the code is already in 2.6.36-rc
    
    - alter conntrack reply tuple for LVS-NAT connections when first packet
    from client is forwarded and conntrack state is NEW or RELATED.
    Additionally, alter reply for RELATED connections from real server,
    again for packet in original direction.
    
    - add IP_VS_XMIT_TUNNEL to confirm conntrack (without altering
    reply) for LVS-TUN early because we want to call nf_reset. It is
    needed because we add IPIP header and the original conntrack
    should be preserved, not destroyed. The transmitted IPIP packets
    can reuse same conntrack, so we do not set skb->ipvs_property.
    
    - try to destroy conntrack when the IPVS connection is destroyed.
    It is not fatal if conntrack disappears before that, it depends
    on the used timers.
    
    Fix problems from long time:
    
    - add skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE for the LVS-TUN transmitters
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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