From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: xtables2 a8, netlink interface
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:50:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120120085055.0957b16a@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw40yyZHiK7wbCxOp-CkRvXNT6s0gnmi3gh8MgE62Xu9zg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:23:54 +0100
Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
> > On Friday 2012-01-20 01:56, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >>>
> >>> So here is the first set of patches implementing part of the xt2 core
> >>> and nfnl interface. Please review, I am sure you will have something
> >>> to say :)
> >>>
> >>> The userspace part is at git://dev.medozas.de/libnetfilter_xtables,
> >>> the xtnl-test program compiled as part of the default make target
> >>> gives access to the kernel functions implemented by the patches.
> >>
> >>Does it allow for watching for iptables changes (notifications),
> >>similar to what is done for link, address, and qdisc changes?
> >
> > It certainly does not look like a big deal to write it, so yes, I
> > had that on my list of things to add. (Even though I could not come up
> > with a usecase for that feature myself yet.)
>
> My use case would be for a routing daemon to detect when nat was present on
> an interface, so as to not advertise invalid routes.
Our use case is to control an external dataplane.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-20 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-19 16:26 xtables2 a8, netlink interface Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-19 16:26 ` [PATCH 1/7] netfilter: xtables2: initial table skeletal functions Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-20 0:23 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-01-20 9:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-19 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/7] netfilter: xtables2: initial Netlink interface Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-14 10:47 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-02-14 15:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-14 19:53 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-01-19 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/7] netfilter: xtables2: chain creation and deletion Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-14 11:07 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-01-19 16:26 ` [PATCH 4/7] netfilter: xtables2: chain renaming support Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-19 16:26 ` [PATCH 5/7] netfilter: xtables2: initial table replace support Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-19 16:26 ` [PATCH 6/7] netfilter: xtables2: transaction abort support Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-19 16:26 ` [PATCH 7/7] netfilter: xtables2: redirect writes into transaction buffer Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-20 0:56 ` xtables2 a8, netlink interface Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-20 8:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-20 9:23 ` Dave Taht
2012-01-20 16:50 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-01-21 14:10 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-01-21 15:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-21 20:21 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-01-23 15:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-23 19:48 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
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