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| author | Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com> | 2016-08-18 12:13:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2016-08-22 11:42:22 +0200 |
| commit | 91dbc6be0a62d3bcea98287734d593610aed507d (patch) | |
| tree | 99b45cb0fc627a16fa2418f806b13ea1c7b0669e /net/netfilter/Kconfig | |
| parent | 3d2f30a1df907e3ef4175121f0d21456630a72aa (diff) | |
| download | lwn-91dbc6be0a62d3bcea98287734d593610aed507d.tar.gz lwn-91dbc6be0a62d3bcea98287734d593610aed507d.zip | |
netfilter: nf_tables: add number generator expression
This patch adds the numgen expression that allows us to generated
incremental and random numbers, this generator is bound to a upper limit
that is specified by userspace.
This expression is useful to distribute packets in a round-robin fashion
as well as randomly.
Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/Kconfig | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/netfilter/Kconfig index 29a8078deafa..e8d56d9a4df2 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/netfilter/Kconfig @@ -474,6 +474,12 @@ config NFT_META This option adds the "meta" expression that you can use to match and to set packet metainformation such as the packet mark. +config NFT_NUMGEN + tristate "Netfilter nf_tables number generator module" + help + This option adds the number generator expression used to perform + incremental counting and random numbers bound to a upper limit. + config NFT_CT depends on NF_CONNTRACK tristate "Netfilter nf_tables conntrack module" |