netdev - Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

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Message-Id: <200710130156.58279.a1426z@gawab.com>
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

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