Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756641AbXJTEry (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:47:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752101AbXJTErk (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:47:40 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:34077 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752012AbXJTErj (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:47:39 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Al Boldi Cc: Bill Davidsen , Patrick McHardy , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:40:02 +0300." <200710200640.02012.a1426z@gawab.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200710120031.42805.a1426z@gawab.com> <47168EA1.1080300@tmr.com> <471699A0.3060303@tmr.com> <200710200640.02012.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1192855654_10241P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:47:34 -0400 Message-ID: <26556.1192855654@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1289 Lines: 34 --==_Exmh_1192855654_10241P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:40:02 +0300, Al Boldi said: > Sure, the idea was to mark the filter table obsolete as to make people start > using the mangle table to do their filtering for new setups. The filter > table would then still be available for legacy/special setups. But this > would only be possible if we at least ported the REJECT target to mangle. That's *half* the battle. The other half is explaining why I should move from a perfectly functional setup that uses the filter table. What gains do I get from doing so? What isn't working that I don't know about? etc? In other words - why do I want to move from filter to mangle? --==_Exmh_1192855654_10241P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHGYhmcC3lWbTT17ARAlHPAJ9Y5sobdaOgDr3R6HkxXlgQwUXjXwCg5alK uWct6eF1gvoGsHBzKTOGrU0= =kaN6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1192855654_10241P-- - 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/