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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.

  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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