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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: matteo@openwrt.org
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] add stealth mode
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:15:34 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150923.111534.560140422263992933.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1443025932-30386-1-git-send-email-matteo@openwrt.org>

From: Matteo Croce <matteo@openwrt.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:32:12 +0200

> Add option to disable any reply not related to a listening socket,
> like RST/ACK for TCP and ICMP Port-Unreachable for UDP.
> Also disables ICMP replies to echo request and timestamp.
> The stealth mode can be enabled selectively for a single interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <matteo@openwrt.org>

I don't want to see any more submissions of this feature patch, sorry.

I am convinced, based upon other's arguments, that netfilter can
provide this facility wholly.

So until you can convince us otherwise, your patch is inappropriate.

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-23 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-02  8:47 [PATCH] [PATCH v3] " Matteo Croce
2015-09-15 19:00 ` David Miller
2015-09-16  9:54   ` [PATCH v4] " Matteo Croce
2015-09-16 10:26     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-09-16 10:45       ` Matteo Croce
2015-09-16 11:11         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-09-16 11:06     ` Florian Westphal
2015-09-23 16:36       ` Matteo Croce
2015-09-23 17:29         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-09-23 18:16           ` David Miller
2015-09-23 18:15         ` David Miller
2015-09-16 11:11     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-09-23 16:32       ` Matteo Croce
2015-09-23 18:15         ` David Miller [this message]

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