Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761205AbXJLXQK (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:16:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762023AbXJLW5K (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:57:10 -0400 Received: from [212.12.190.36] ([212.12.190.36]:48176 "EHLO raad.intranet" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761759AbXJLW5B (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:57:01 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: Patrick McHardy , Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:56:54 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200710120031.42805.a1426z@gawab.com> <470F7B4B.2010609@trash.net> In-Reply-To: <470F7B4B.2010609@trash.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710130156.54050.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1261 Lines: 36 Patrick McHardy wrote: > 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. Wow! How soon can we expect this to surface on mainline? Thanks a lot! -- Al - 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/