Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758106AbXJLNtw (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:49:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752283AbXJLNtk (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:49:40 -0400 Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:59027 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751343AbXJLNti (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:49:38 -0400 Message-ID: <470F7B4B.2010609@trash.net> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:48:59 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051019) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Al Boldi , Netfilter Developer Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table References: <200710120031.42805.a1426z@gawab.com> <200710121630.29151.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 32 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Oct 12 2007 16:30, Al Boldi wrote: >>>> >>>>With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? >>> >>>A similar discussion was back in March 2007. >>>http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=117394977210823&w=2 >>>http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=117400063907706&w=2 >>> >>>in the end, my proposal was something like >>>http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX0/nf_proposal2.svg >> >>Any chance you could publish this as something readable like text/html? > > > Like, image/png? > http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX0/nf_proposal2.png The netlink based iptables successor I'm currently working on allows to dynamically create tables with user-specified priorities and "built-in" chains. The only built-in tables will be those that need extra processing (mangle/nat). So it should be possible to set up tables basically any way you desire. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/