Re: [PATCH v3] extensions: libxt_statistic: Add translation to nft

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 04:29:46PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > In all this thread you talk all the time on probability semantics,
> > however the selector name is 'random'.
> > 
> > Why don't you rename this to 'meta probability' instead?
> > 
> > No changes in the semantics then, just use:
> > 
> >         meta probability 0.1
> > 
> > and when expressing the opposite:
> > 
> >         meta probability 0.9
> 
> I have no preferences one way or another, i'd
> be fine with using probability for this.
> 
> In future you might want to allow something like
> 
> nft add rule filter input meta mark set meta random

Right.

> or
> nft add rule filter input queue num meta random

Yes, this reminds me we have to fix nft_queue so it also accepts a
sreg as input. It's not very flexible and we cannot use maps with it.

> Perhaps we should use probability for now and later
> alias is to random for these cases?

+1 to using meta probability for this.