User`s guide

Networking

• Add IPv6 REDIRECT target.

• Add IPv6 AT support.

• Support IPv6 FTP NAT helper.

• Support IPv6 IRC NAT helper.

• Support IPv6 SIP NAT helper.

• Support IPv6 in the amanda NAT helper.

• Add stateless IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation target.

• Remove xt_NOTRACK.

(3.7)

• Add link layer control (LLC) core layer to HCI 2, add an SHDLC llc module to the lic core, and add

LLCP raw socket support to NFC. (3.7)

• Support IPv6 transmit hashing (and TCP or UDP over IPv6) in the bonding driver. (3.7)

• Add support for dumping diagnostic core and basic socket information (family, type and protocol) at

socket creation time. (3.7)

• Add support to ethtool for setting the MDI/MDI-x state for twisted-pair wiring. (3.7)

• Add 64-bit statistics support to PPP, including tx_bytes, rx_bytes, tx_packets, and rx_packets.

3.7

• Add generic netlink support for tcp_metrics that allows unlinking and deletion of entries after a

grace period. (3.7)

• Add bridge port parameters over netlink to permit dumping, monitoring, and changing the bridge

multicast database. (3.8)

• Add support for RFC 5961 5.2 Blind Data Injection Attack Mitigation. (3.8)

• Change default TCP hash size, and add support for hardware-offloaded encapsulation and offloading of

encapsulated packets for VXLAN and IP GRE. (3.8)

• Add vlan tag access to netfilter. (3.8)

• Add extensions to VXLAN to support Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE) networks. (3.8)

• Add IPv6 set action functionality to openswitch. (3.8)

• Add GSO support to IPIP tunnels, increasing the performance of a single TCP flow. (3.8)

• Implement IPv6 fragment handling for IPVS (3.8)

• Add support in netfilter for querying the destination address of a redirected connection. (3.8)

• Add NOTRACK target recovery to netfilter. (3.8)

• Implement QFQ+ in sched. (3.8)

• Add support for RTM_GETNETCONF to routing netlink. (3.8)