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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] iptables:  mangle table obsoletes filter table
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:56:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710130156.58279.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <470F7555.4090500@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> > But can you see how forcing people into splitting
> > their rules across tables adds complexity.  And without ipt_REJECT
> > patch, they can't even use REJECT in prerouting, which forces them to do
> > some strange hacks.
> >
> > IMHO, we should make things as easily configurable as possible, and as
> > things stand right now, the filter-table is completely useless for 99%
> > of use-cases.
>
> Sure, as I said, patches to remove the arbitary restrictions to
> tables are welcome, but please do this for all targets and
> matches which allow this, not only REJECT. And if you include a
> seperate (tested) patch for the IPv4 and IPv6 REJECT targets
> I'll consider it as well.

Sounds fair.  All we need now is for someone to kindly submit these rather 
straight forward patches.


Thanks!

--
Al


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-12 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-11 21:31 Al Boldi
2007-10-12  4:35 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-12  5:37   ` Al Boldi
     [not found]     ` <470F5F19.70606@trash.net>
2007-10-12 12:25       ` Al Boldi
2007-10-12 12:31         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-12 13:18           ` Al Boldi
2007-10-12 13:23             ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-12 22:56               ` Al Boldi [this message]
2007-10-17 22:37     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-17 23:24       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-20  3:40         ` Al Boldi
2007-10-20  4:47           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-20 11:10             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-21  4:31             ` Al Boldi
2007-10-21  4:53               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-23 22:27               ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-12 13:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-12 13:30   ` Al Boldi
2007-10-12 13:39     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-12 13:48       ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-12 14:02         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-12 14:03           ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-12 22:56         ` Al Boldi
2007-10-12 23:02           ` Patrick McHardy
     [not found] <200710120814.23903.a1426z@gawab.com>
2007-10-18 15:41 ` Matthew Faulkner

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