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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Sven Schuster <schuster.sven@gmx.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NETFILTER: add support for invert condition (!)	in	ipt_limit
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:12:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4364E2D4.6090809@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051017213551.GA6043@zion.homelinux.com>

Sven Schuster wrote:

> I know it's been a while since netfilter/iptables has been developed,
> but why wasn't isn't the inversion built into the netfilter/iptables
> core?? Inversion can be useful for any kind of match, so why duplicate
> it in every single match?? Why not instead do a general inversion??
> If I haven't thought of something obvious please cat this post to
> /dev/null :-) (but pleas enlighten me before doing so *g*)

Yes, that would have been a better idea. Unfortunately
we can't change this now because of userspace compatiblity.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-30 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-17  9:44 [PATCH] NETFILTER: add support for invert condition (!) in ipt_limit Marco Innocenti
2005-10-17  9:45 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-10-17 14:10   ` Marco Innocenti
2005-10-17 14:30   ` Marco Innocenti
2005-10-17 15:15     ` Patrick McHardy
2005-10-17 15:28       ` Phil Oester
2005-10-17 15:43         ` Patrick McHardy
2005-10-17 21:35       ` Sven Schuster
2005-10-18  8:33         ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-18  9:19           ` Sven Schuster
2005-10-18  9:57             ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-30 15:12         ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-10-20  9:01       ` Marco Innocenti
2005-11-21 14:27         ` m.innocenti
2005-11-21 14:38           ` Pablo Neira
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-17  9:34 Marco Innocenti

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