netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 14/16] iptables socket match

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0810031002460.3893@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:04:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
cc:	KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@....bme.hu>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 14/16] iptables socket match


On Thursday 2008-10-02 05:26, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> KOVACS Krisztian wrote:
>> Add iptables 'socket' match, which matches packets for which a TCP/UDP
>> socket lookup succeeds.
>
> It seems sufficiently different from what xt_owner does to justify a separate
> module.

I am with you on that. However, I would have had liked — already last year —
to have xt_owner revision 1 be called socket, because it is much more than just
ownage that xt_owner currently plays with, and because it could have saved now
running around with yet another module.
Well, xt_socket at last! ;-)
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