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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:56:58 +0300 From: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> Cc: netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table Patrick McHardy wrote: > Al Boldi wrote: > > But can you see how forcing people into splitting > > their rules across tables adds complexity. And without ipt_REJECT > > patch, they can't even use REJECT in prerouting, which forces them to do > > some strange hacks. > > > > IMHO, we should make things as easily configurable as possible, and as > > things stand right now, the filter-table is completely useless for 99% > > of use-cases. > > Sure, as I said, patches to remove the arbitary restrictions to > tables are welcome, but please do this for all targets and > matches which allow this, not only REJECT. And if you include a > seperate (tested) patch for the IPv4 and IPv6 REJECT targets > I'll consider it as well. Sounds fair. All we need now is for someone to kindly submit these rather straight forward patches. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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