From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist <netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TTL target goes mainline ?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:41:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <430F1C07.5020305@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050826131901.GY4226@rama.de.gnumonks.org>
Harald Welte wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:43:55PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>
>>Why not, people can just as easy shoot themselves using bridging or
>>tc actions. But I'm not sure about enabling only parts of functionality
>>without CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, why not simply depend entirely on it?
>
>
> because decrementing the TTL is considered safe, routers do it all the day ;)
Sure :) I just think its nicer than to enable "sub-functionality" by
config options, so if its there, its usable. I also don't think there
are people who actually have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL disabled, so in
the end, we just save a few ifdefs in the code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-26 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-26 11:18 [RFC] TTL target goes mainline ? Harald Welte
2005-08-26 11:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-08-26 13:19 ` Harald Welte
2005-08-26 13:41 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-08-26 15:16 ` Phil Oester
2005-08-26 15:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-08-26 19:20 ` David S. Miller
2005-08-26 12:10 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2005-08-26 17:27 ` Maciej Soltysiak
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