From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add direction match to conntrack match
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:10:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4662F612.9060801@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4660734B.3090203@ufomechanic.net>
Amin Azez wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>> But I think use should use a regular flag for this. The
>> XT_CONNTRACK_STATE_SNAT are already a not so great idea
>> since the same information is in the status bits, which
>> can also be matched.
>>
>
> The regular flags are declared as u_int8_t, and all 8 bits are already
> used.
>
> This was the neatest way I could come up with without destroying
> user-space compatability.
You're right of course. Extending the flags like Henrik suggested would
probably make sense, sooner or later we're going to have more conntrack
related things someone wants to match on. Port numbers come to mind ..
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-03 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 16:25 [PATCH] add direction match to conntrack match Amin Azez
2007-06-01 16:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-01 19:28 ` Amin Azez
2007-06-02 11:34 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2007-06-03 17:10 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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