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From: Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl>
To: Massimiliano Hofer <max@nucleus.it>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: condition for 2.6.16
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:44:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4447E498.7060006@rtij.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604202139.02931.max@nucleus.it>

Massimiliano Hofer wrote:

>On Thursday 20 April 2006 8:49 pm, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>  
>
>>We have already decided that the condition match will not be merged
>>because the same thing can easily be done by adding/removing rules
>>from userspace.
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry, I missed that discussion.
>Is it still possible to include it in the external patches?
>
>Anyway I think condition allows for a much more elegant solution in cases 
>where adding and removing rules would lead to a messy and unpredictable 
>sequence of overlapping rules, not to mention races between different 
>modifications.
>Just my humble opinion.
>  
>

I concur. The condition match is much more elegant then dynamically 
messing with the rules.

M4

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-20 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 17:19 condition for 2.6.16 Massimiliano Hofer
2006-04-20 18:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-20 19:39   ` Massimiliano Hofer
2006-04-20 19:44     ` Martijn Lievaart [this message]
2006-04-20 22:47     ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-20 23:26       ` Massimiliano Hofer
2006-04-21  0:41         ` Gerd v. Egidy
2006-04-21  0:48         ` Gerd v. Egidy
2006-04-21  9:29           ` Amin Azez
2006-04-23 13:47   ` Simon Lodal
2006-04-28  7:12     ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-28 10:46       ` Massimiliano Hofer
2006-04-28 11:06         ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-28 12:44           ` Massimiliano Hofer
2006-04-28 12:58             ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2006-04-28 13:07               ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-28 15:18                 ` KOVACS Krisztian
2006-04-28 15:34                   ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-29  0:53                     ` Massimiliano Hofer
2006-04-29  2:56                       ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-29 15:36                         ` Massimiliano Hofer
2006-04-28 13:18               ` Massimiliano Hofer
2006-04-28 13:09             ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-28 13:26               ` Massimiliano Hofer

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