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From: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
Subject: Re: x_tables vs. nf-hipac
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:31:37 +0000
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Op ma, 10-10-2005 te 18:34 +0200, schreef Harald Welte:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:05:53PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Hi Harald,
> > 
> > you said that there is already some code for x_tables (is that
> > pkttables, and if so, doesn't the new name collide with a spreadsheet
> > layout program?). 
> 
> No, x_tables is not pkttables.  However, x_tables matches/targets will
> be incrementally changed in order to be used from
> {arp,ip,ip6,pkt}_tables _and_ nf-hipac at the same time.

Nice to see this move forward. If you want to put the arptables
userspace tool into the netfilter tree, then be my guest.
I guess we'll have to consider talking about merging ebtables into this
scheme some day...

cheers,
Bart