Hello guys
i am running RHEL5.3.
my bandwidth is completely choked with p2p applications, i configured ipp2p to block torrents but it wasnt blocking p2p.
so i thought to configure l7-filter, while compiling i got some error in patching file ip_conntrack_core.c and i skipped it.. kindly help

here is the details..

[root@auth 2.6.18-164.el5PAE-i686]# patch -p1 < /usr/src/netfilter-layer7-v2.22/for_older_kernels/kernel-2.6.18-2.6.19-layer7-2.9.patch
patching file include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_conntrack.h
patching file include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_layer7.h
patching file net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig
patching file net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile
Hunk #1 succeeded at 64 (offset 1 line).
can't find file to patch at input line 88
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- linux-2.6.19.1-stock/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c 2006-12-11 13:32:53.000000000 -0600
|+++ linux-2.6.19.1-layer7/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c 2006-12-13 00:13:08.000000000 -0600
--------------------------
File to patch: linux-2.6.19.1-layer7/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c
linux-2.6.19.1-layer7/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: No such file or directory
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
can't find file to patch at input line 104
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- linux-2.6.19.1-stock/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_standalone.c 2006-12-11 13:32:53.000000000 -0600
|+++ linux-2.6.19.1-layer7/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_standalone.c 2006-12-13 00:13:08.000000000 -0600
--------------------------
File to patch:
Skip this patch? [y] y
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
patching file net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_layer7.c
patching file net/ipv4/netfilter/regexp/regexp.c
patching file net/ipv4/netfilter/regexp/regexp.h
patching file net/ipv4/netfilter/regexp/regmagic.h
patching file net/ipv4/netfilter/regexp/regsub.c

Since this hasn't been replied to for a week or more, I'll start.

I'm not sure what you are asking. It looks to me like you want to compile a kernel module, that you are running an older kernel than the current one, and that you want to apply a patch to the source.

I guess the first question is, is this a valid patch for the kernel version you are using? I wonder if it is, since it appears to want to patch non-existent source files. There is no ip_conntrack_core.c in my src (2.6.27), and googling seems to indicate it disappeared somewhere around the .16-.19 versions.

Did the compile actually work?