From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Balazs Scheidler Subject: Re: [PATCH}: Make MARK target terminate (resend) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:50:18 +0200 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.samba.org Message-ID: <20020701075018.GA440@balabit.hu> References: <3D1D81F8.9080309@trash.net> <200206291236.36997@henrik.marasystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: Patrick McHardy , netfilter-devel , Harald Welte Return-path: To: Henrik Nordstrom Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206291236.36997@henrik.marasystems.com> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.samba.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:36:36PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Saturday 29 June 2002 11.46, Patrick McHardy wrote: > So the question to the Netfilter core team is if it would be OK to add > a new option and "module class" to the userspace tools, and have the > existing IPT_CONTINUE targets dual-register as both a target and a > match. I can try to whip something together if this is seen as > something acceptable. Should be fully backwards/forward compatible > with existing rulesets with only a minimal amount of code > duplication. The only compability issue is that if you make use the > new feature then you cannot go back to a older userspace or kernel.. I for one would second a feature like this. I see a good number of places where it could be used (the long standing missing -l option is one example) -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1