From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Herz Subject: Re: Formal submission of Xtables2 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:09:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20121218140957.GJ2606@workstation> References: <20121213110046.GA22337@1984> <20121214094141.GO2606@workstation> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Netfilter user mailing list On 14/12/12 at 19:49, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Friday 2012-12-14 10:41, Andreas Herz wrote: > >On 13/12/12 at 12:00, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:00:07AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt 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. > > > >Apart of your discussion (i think it's quite interesting although you > >might not agree), is there a summary of the status of nftables? > >The last time i read about it, while i was at the university, i thought > >it was dead. > >I read that Patrick McHardy was the one pushing the project but never > >heard any news after 2010. Now i read that Pablo is taking care of it. > > > >So i would love to hear more details on the roadmap for nftables, might > >be interesting for me and my work here. > > For parity, I am posting my roadmap document as it exists so far > as well. Please see http://inai.de/nfxt/ . > > And before the question of "who's maintaining?" coming up again - > I'd be glad to maintain if only I was given the chance to. Thanks so far for the informations. I will just see how the development is going on and if i/we need some parts. -- Andreas Herz