This patch adds the IPv6 flow table type, that implements the datapath
flow table to forward IPv6 traffic.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This patch defines the API to interact with flow tables, this allows to
add, delete and lookup for entries in the flow table. This also adds the
generic garbage code that removes entries that have expired, ie. no
traffic has been seen for a while.
Users of the flow table infrastructure can delete entries via
flow_offload_dead(), which sets the dying bit, this signals the garbage
collector to release an entry from user context.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This patch introduces a netlink control plane to create, delete and dump
flow tables. Flow tables are identified by name, this name is used from
rules to refer to an specific flow table. Flow tables use the rhashtable
class and a generic garbage collector to remove expired entries.
This also adds the infrastructure to add different flow table types, so
we can add one for each layer 3 protocol family.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
