From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Re: dangerous? Setting mark in nat table Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:58:14 +0100 Message-ID: <45F87E06.20201@gmx.net> References: <45F6CD7C.40708@ufomechanic.net> <1173868532.26913.39.camel@henriknordstrom.net> <45F7D657.8070907@trash.net> <1173876211.26913.73.camel@henriknordstrom.net> <45F7F027.9050300@ufomechanic.net> <45F7F3C6.3060908@trash.net> <45F85C89.7070107@trash.net> <1173905134.1760.59.camel@henriknordstrom.net> <1173910894.1760.89.camel@henriknordstrom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, Jan Engelhardt , Patrick McHardy To: Henrik Nordstrom Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1173910894.1760.89.camel@henriknordstrom.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On 14.03.2007 23:21, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > Or whatever it will be in the successor to iptables.. > > just spewing ideas at this time. As Patrick I do not consider the core > iptables worth the effort of such redesign and if redesigning stuff then > something significantly better should be done. nf-HiPAC is one possible > alternative where a lot is done much smarter even if communication > between the projects is pretty distant at the moment. Speaking of HiPAC, when is it going to be merged? IIRC the merge was discussed at the netfilter workshop 2005 with the goal to merge it in 2.6.16. Has this decision been overturned/revised/forgotten or was the report I read about that netfilter workshop inaccurate? Regards, Carl-Daniel