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Message-Id: <200710130156.54050.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:56:54 +0300
From: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-net@...r.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table
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
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