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authorHarald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>2005-09-26 15:25:11 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-09-26 15:25:11 -0700
commit188bab3ae0ed164bc18f98be932512d777dd038b (patch)
tree58a4a77478e8abf0af5afa53dee6a6b1e5828387 /include
parentb85daee0e497c8fe7c4dc3531674ede645b37cdf (diff)
[NETFILTER]: Fix invalid module autoloading by splitting iptable_nat
When you've enabled conntrack and NAT as a module (standard case in all distributions), and you've also enabled the new conntrack netlink interface, loading ip_conntrack_netlink.ko will auto-load iptable_nat.ko. This causes a huge performance penalty, since for every packet you iterate the nat code, even if you don't want it. This patch splits iptable_nat.ko into the NAT core (ip_nat.ko) and the iptables frontend (iptable_nat.ko). Threfore, ip_conntrack_netlink.ko will only pull ip_nat.ko, but not the frontend. ip_nat.ko will "only" allocate some resources, but not affect runtime performance. This separation is also a nice step in anticipation of new packet filters (nf-hipac, ipset, pkttables) being able to use the NAT core. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_nat_core.h12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_nat_core.h b/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_nat_core.h
index 3b50eb91f00..30db23f06b0 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_nat_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_nat_core.h
@@ -5,16 +5,14 @@
/* This header used to share core functionality between the standalone
NAT module, and the compatibility layer's use of NAT for masquerading. */
-extern int ip_nat_init(void);
-extern void ip_nat_cleanup(void);
-extern unsigned int nat_packet(struct ip_conntrack *ct,
+extern unsigned int ip_nat_packet(struct ip_conntrack *ct,
enum ip_conntrack_info conntrackinfo,
unsigned int hooknum,
struct sk_buff **pskb);
-extern int icmp_reply_translation(struct sk_buff **pskb,
- struct ip_conntrack *ct,
- enum ip_nat_manip_type manip,
- enum ip_conntrack_dir dir);
+extern int ip_nat_icmp_reply_translation(struct sk_buff **pskb,
+ struct ip_conntrack *ct,
+ enum ip_nat_manip_type manip,
+ enum ip_conntrack_dir dir);
#endif /* _IP_NAT_CORE_H */