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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
	Michael Rash <mbr@cipherdyne.org>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist
	<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][IPTABLES] userspace u32 match support
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:35:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <455ADF71.5010503@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611151010310.26451@bizon.gios.gov.pl>

Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
>> Add support for u32 match in userspace
> 
> 
> Thanks, but the original u32 match was much more powerful and allowed
> for example to move to a next header (ip->tcp) using the @ operator and
> generally to build more advanced test. As you used the same name (u32)
> it will be no longer possible to use the old one.

Yes, this is a problem. Without beeing able to get at the TCP
header or data it is of much less use.

> So, are there any plans to implement full power of the old u32 extension?

I agree, we should integrate the original version.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-15  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-10  1:31 [PATCH][IPTABLES] userspace u32 match support Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-11-15  9:19 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-11-15  9:35   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-11-15 12:53     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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