From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Netfilter user mailing list <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Formal submission of Xtables2
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:28:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121213142820.GA3489@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1212131405170.786@nerf07.vanv.qr>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 02:08:03PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2012-12-13 13:05, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> >> >[...]
> >> >> Please consider for merging.
> >> >
> >> >nftables and its compatibility layer already provide this and we will
> >> >not have to maintain two different netlink interfaces, which is too
> >> >much overhead.
> >>
> >> I refer you to our previous discussion on the topic
> >> for the justifications:
> >>
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg23919.html
> >
> >I don't think that feature-set provides compelling reasons to push
> >this mainstream.
>
> Well, if not that, then what - documentation, code size?
Not only that. Xtables2 (in its feature-set) inherits many of the
design decisions that were taken while designing iptables back in the
late nineties.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-13 6:00 Formal submission of Xtables2 Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 11:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-13 11:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 12:05 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-13 13:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 14:28 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2012-12-13 14:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 15:16 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-13 16:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 17:25 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-13 18:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17 0:08 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-17 1:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17 9:53 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-17 10:12 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-12-17 13:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17 14:30 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-17 20:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17 23:49 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-12-18 1:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-18 1:51 ` Neal Murphy
2012-12-18 1:27 ` David Miller
2012-12-14 9:41 ` Andreas Herz
2012-12-14 18:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-18 14:09 ` Andreas Herz
2012-12-16 23:57 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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