From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Martin Gignac <martin.gignac@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trying to provision flowtable returns error
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 18:07:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201105170754.GB25824@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANf9dFP5fzK7N3eQ3KyW=zC22dpfMuf=yxX7B9dqTpnb0mThLA@mail.gmail.com>
Martin Gignac <martin.gignac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> OK, I understand now.
>
> - on RHEL/CentOS 8 I *was* using existing network interfaces, but
> there are *no* nf_flow kernel modules available, and
> - on Fedora 30/33 there *are* nf_flow kernel modules available, but I
> was *not* using existing interface names
>
> Both cases give off the same error message, which confused me.
Yes, I agree its confusing. In first case its because module isn't found and
in second case its the interface names that could not be found.
> In Fedora the systemd
> unit file for the nftables.services states that nftables should start
> before the network.pre-target:
[..]
> At this stage Network Manager hasn't even begun to initialize, much
> less create any logical interfaces.
Sure. I think the systemd default is sane though.
> Or is there another way that I am not seeing?
Can't nm execute some action when an interface comes up?
That way you could just add the flowtable later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-05 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-16 10:37 nftables iifname and currently unknown interfaces Robert Sander
2020-10-16 10:54 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-16 10:56 ` Florian Westphal
2020-10-16 11:10 ` Robert Sander
2020-10-28 22:25 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-11-04 5:30 ` Trying to provision flowtable returns error Martin Gignac
2020-11-05 0:53 ` Duncan Roe
2020-11-05 15:17 ` Martin Gignac
2020-11-05 15:38 ` Florian Westphal
2020-11-05 16:20 ` Martin Gignac
2020-11-05 17:07 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2020-11-05 18:21 ` Martin Gignac
2020-11-05 18:41 ` Martin Gignac
2020-11-05 21:01 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-11-05 21:45 ` Martin Gignac
2020-11-06 10:58 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-11-06 15:13 ` Martin Gignac
2020-11-06 15:24 ` Martin Gignac
2020-11-06 16:21 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-11-06 19:20 ` Martin Gignac
2020-11-10 15:04 ` Gordon Fisher
2020-11-06 17:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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