From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>,
Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>,
Hendrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Subject: Re: NF structural changes (was: dangerous?)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:05:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F8637D.3060600@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0703142148430.1199@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> As a result of the "dangerous? Setting mark in nat table" thread, I have
> just drawn this idea of mine down, where:
>
> - filter and mangle tables are merged
We need to preserve compatibility (meaning we must keep the rerouting
in mangle), so I don't see the advantage over simply removing the
restrictions to mangle.
> - filtering comes early, even before nat
> (so that, for example, packets do not needlessy be MARKed, mangled,
etc.)
Would probably make life easier (no more -m conntrack --ctorigdst),
but I don't see how this could be changed without breaking rulesets.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-14 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-14 20:57 NF structural changes (was: dangerous?) Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-14 21:05 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-03-14 21:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-14 21:48 ` Amin Azez
2007-03-15 2:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-15 9:09 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2007-03-14 22:02 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-03-14 22:29 ` Amin Azez
2007-03-14 21:41 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2007-03-14 21:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
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