Re: [PATCH] IPv6 dnat/snat support

"Tseng, Kuo-Lang" <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:59:02 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Message-ID <3F25FE8C477E9E4FB3D42C2FF937C08A820407@orsmsx423.amr.corp.intel.com>
For IPv4, Ebtables supports layer-4 parsing on port id so why not add
the same for IPv6 too? It would be just adding a few lines of code
extracted from patch I sent. 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:33 PM
>To: Tseng, Kuo-Lang
>Cc: Bart De Schuymer; [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Ebtables-devel] [PATCH] IPv6 dnat/snat support
>
>On Feb 6 2008 16:14, Tseng, Kuo-Lang wrote:
>
>>>>>I would like to find out if there is any IPv6 support in ebtables
>>>>>for replacing MAC address of the Ethernet header based on TCP or
>>>>>UDP port id in IPv6 packets. I would appreciate it if there is
>>>>>anyone on this list who knows of any prior work in ebtables to
>>>>>support IPv6.
>
>Sorry; I only monitor ebtables-devel since recently,
>an ebt_ip6 match has been posted at
>http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=120182168424052&w=2
>
>I am not to keen to add layer-4 parsing to ebt code; instead,
>it should (ideally) interface with Xtables.

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