History log of /src/lib/libnpf/libnpf.3
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# 1.12 30-May-2020 rmind

Major NPF improvements (merge from upstream):

- Switch to the C11-style atomic primitives using atomic_loadstore(9).

- npfkern: introduce the 'state.key.interface' and 'state.key.direction'
settings. Users can now choose whether the connection state should be
strictly per-interface or global at the configuration level. Keep NAT
logic to be always per-interface, though.

- npfkern: rewrite the G/C worker logic and make it self-tuning.

- npfkern and libnpf: multiple bug fixes; add param exporting; introduce
more parameters. Remove npf_nvlist_{copyin,copyout}() functions and
refactor npfctl_load_nvlist() with others; add npfctl_run_op() to have
a single entry point for operations. Introduce npf_flow_t and clean up
some code.

- npfctl: lots of fixes for the 'npfctl show' logic; make 'npfctl list'
more informative; misc usability improvements and more user-friendly
error messages.

- Amend and improve the manual pages.


Revision tags: phil-wifi-20200421 phil-wifi-20200411 is-mlppp-base phil-wifi-20200406 phil-wifi-20191119
# 1.11 30-Sep-2019 rmind

libnpf/npfctl: support dynamic NAT rulesets using a name prefix.


# 1.10 21-Aug-2019 rmind

npfkern/libnpf: Add support for the table replace/swap operation.
Contributed by Timshel Knoll-Miller.


Revision tags: netbsd-9-base
# 1.9 23-Jul-2019 wiz

branches: 1.9.2;
Try improving a description.


# 1.8 23-Jul-2019 rmind

NPF improvements:
- Add support for dynamic NETMAP algorithm (stateful net-to-net).
- Add most of the support for the dynamic NAT rules; a little bit more
userland work is needed to finish this up and enable.
- Replace 'stateful-ends' with more permissive 'stateful-all'.
- Add various tunable parameters and document them, see npf-params(7).
- Reduce the memory usage of the connection state table (conndb).
- Portmap rewrite: use memory more efficiently, handle addresses dynamically.
- Bug fix: add splsoftnet()/splx() around the thmap writers and comment.
- npftest: clean up and simplify; fix some memleaks to make ASAN happy.


Revision tags: phil-wifi-20190609 pgoyette-compat-20190127
# 1.7 19-Jan-2019 rmind

Major NPF improvements:
- Convert NPF connection table to thmap. State lookup is now lock-free.
- Improve connection state G/C: it is now incremental and tunable.
- Add support for dynamic NAT address. Translation addresses can now be
selected from a pool of addresses. There are two selection algorithms,
"ip-hash" and "round-robin" (see the man page).
- Translation address can be specified as e.g. ifaddrs(wm0) in npf.conf
to dynamically choose an IP from the interface address(es).
- Add support for the NETMAP algorithm with static NAT for net-to-net
translation (it is equivalent to iptables NETMAP logic).
- Convert 'ipset' tables to use thmap; the table lookup is now lock-free.
- Misc improvements, bug fixes and more unit tests.
- Bump NPF_VERSION (will also bump libnpf).


Revision tags: pgoyette-compat-20190118 pgoyette-compat-1226 pgoyette-compat-1126 pgoyette-compat-1020 pgoyette-compat-0930
# 1.6 29-Sep-2018 rmind

NPF: Major rework -- migrate NPF to the libnv library.
- This conversion significantly simplifies the code and moves NPF to
a binary serialisation format (replacing the XML-like format).
- Fix some memory/reference leaks and possibly use-after-free bugs.
- Bump NPF_VERSION as this change makes libnpf incompatible with the
previous versions. Also, different serialisation format means NPF
connection/config saving and loading is not compatible with the
previous versions either.

Thanks to christos@ for extra testing.


Revision tags: pgoyette-compat-0906 pgoyette-compat-0728 phil-wifi-base pgoyette-compat-0625 pgoyette-compat-0521 pgoyette-compat-0502 pgoyette-compat-0422 pgoyette-compat-0415 pgoyette-compat-0407 pgoyette-compat-0330 pgoyette-compat-0322 pgoyette-compat-0315 pgoyette-compat-base
# 1.5 07-Dec-2017 rmind

branches: 1.5.2; 1.5.4;
libnpf(3): improve the wording, fix and expand some sections.


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# 1.4 27-Dec-2016 wiz

Fix typos.


# 1.3 27-Dec-2016 rmind

Update libnpf(3) man page.


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# 1.2 03-Aug-2014 rmind

branches: 1.2.2; 1.2.6; 1.2.10;
Cross-link npf(7).


# 1.1 22-Jul-2014 christos

rename npf.3 -> libnpf.3 per rmind@'s request