netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] net: add bpfilter

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Message-ID: <20180219152746.GH5490@nataraja>
Date:   Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:27:46 +0100
From:   Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     fw@...len.de, daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] net: add bpfilter

Hi David,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:13:35AM -0500, David Miller wrote:

> Florian, first of all, the whole "change the iptables binary" idea is
> a non-starter.  For the many reasons I have described in the various
> postings I have made today.
> 
> It is entirely impractical.

Why is it practical to replace your kernel but not practical to replace
a small userspace tool running on top of it?

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- Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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