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Message-ID: <4CC04D97.9020105@treenet.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:26:31 +1300
From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@...enet.co.nz>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@...abit.hu>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@...abit.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as
a default value for --on-ip
On 22/10/10 03:21, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Am 21.10.2010 12:47, schrieb KOVACS Krisztian:
>> From: Balazs Scheidler<bazsi@...abit.hu>
>>
>> The REDIRECT target and the older TProxy versions used the primary address
>> of the incoming interface as the default value of the --on-ip parameter.
>> This was unintentionally changed during the initial TProxy submission and
>> caused confusion among users.
>>
>> Since IPv6 has no notion of primary address, we just select the first address
>> on the list: this way the socket lookup finds wildcard bound sockets
>> properly and we cannot really do better without the user telling us the
>> IPv6 address of the proxy.
>>
>> This is implemented for both IPv4 and IPv6.
>
>
> Also applied, thanks a lot.
>
Hoooray!! Thanks very, very, very much.
Just one followup question:
which kernel and iptables release is this now headed for?
AYJ
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