From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft v2 3/3] src: add xt compat support
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:34:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150409223417.GA3205@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150409205135.GG20653@breakpoint.cc>
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:51:35PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Why would I want to re-write a working nft+compat ruleset to one
> that only uses native expressions?
The fact is that we cannot push users to use nf_tables, but we can
provide good reasons to adopt the native replacements and tools to
migrate easily.
> Whats the point of providing a 'native' replacement for an existing xtables
> target if we can just use the xtables version?
Have a look a hashlimit, multiport and all of our existing combo
match/targets. They are a mess. We're now going towards a way more
flexible and generic (lego fashion) framework that will provide all
kind of combos without relying on this kind of Frankenstein
extensions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-09 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-09 16:55 [PATCH nft v2 1/3] include: cache ip_tables.h, ip6_tables.h, arp_tables.h and ebtables.h Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 16:55 ` [PATCH nft v2 2/3] src: expose delinearize/linearize structures and stmt_error() Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 16:55 ` [PATCH nft v2 3/3] src: add xt compat support Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 20:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 20:51 ` Florian Westphal
2015-04-09 22:34 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2015-04-09 22:36 ` Florian Westphal
2015-04-09 22:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 23:23 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:40 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 23:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:59 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-10 0:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-10 0:26 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-10 0:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:44 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 23:48 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-10 0:07 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-10 0:11 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-10 0:36 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-10 0:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-10 1:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 22:33 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 23:18 ` Patrick McHardy
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