TARPIT in iptables

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Mon Sep 1 09:42:31 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:45, Paul Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:47, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Paul Morgan (paul.morgan at jumanjihouse.com) said: 
> > > Is there any word on whether (and if so, when) the tarpit target will be
> > > incorporated into Red Hat's kernel?
> > 
> > Is it upstream in any kernel?
> 
> It's only a matter of time until it appears in a stock distro. 
> User-side support is built-in with the "official" iptables-1.2.8 
> release, including the Severn/Taroon beta RPMs, 
> but a patch-and-compile is necessary on the kernel side. 
> Despite the tiny size and scope of the patch, I am reluctant to 
> stray from the stock kernels (up2date, client machines, etc.), 
> and I suspect (and hope) that many others would like to see the 
> tarpit target folded into the stock RH kernel.
> 
> http://www.netfilter.org/files/changes-iptables-1.2.8.txt

Alternatively, perhaps it could be added to the kernel-unsupported
package?  That would give it a chance for mass distribution while saying
UNSUPPORTED in a big way.

Should we file a Bugzilla RFE?

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com





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