From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>,
Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Fix expectaction mask dumping, take #3
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:11:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F4DC55.8030405@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060216100504.GI15587@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>
Harald Welte wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:36:20AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>
>>I'm not sure I understand. The new attribute still contains the same
>>value as the netlink header, doesn't it? So userspace should currently
>>have at least two possibilities to get the correct value:
>>
>>- use the value from the netlink header
>>- use the value from the tuple that comes with the mask, as the first
>> part of your patch does. This seems most logically to me since the
>> mask and the tuple belong together.
>
>
> I still dream about a connection with one end in ipv4 space and the
> other in ipv6. If we ever want to cover such a model, then the tuple
> needs to include l3num.
Yes, but until then it looks totally redundant. Since the bandwidth
of netlink is limited, I think we shouldn't add new attributes without
really needing them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-16 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-13 2:39 [PATCH 1/4] Fix expectaction mask dumping, take #3 Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-02-13 11:13 ` Harald Welte
2006-02-16 9:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-02-16 10:05 ` Harald Welte
2006-02-16 20:11 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-02-21 12:16 ` Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
[not found] ` <200602211216.k1LCG18I024522@toshiba.co.jp>
2006-02-23 9:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-02-23 10:10 ` Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
2006-02-21 13:03 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-02-22 3:20 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-02-22 13:01 ` Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
[not found] ` <200602221301.k1MD1lIb015798@toshiba.co.jp>
2006-02-23 9:48 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-02-23 11:10 ` Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
[not found] ` <200602231110.k1NBA71v013563@toshiba.co.jp>
2006-02-23 11:13 ` Patrick McHardy
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