Re: Troubles with MARK target in 2.6.28

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2009-01-15 15:06, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>> But the spartanic output of those proc files barely helps (especially
>>>> in light of multiple revisions), so here is the patch I spoke about,
>>>> refreshed and rebased, that solves the worries.
>>> That seems a bit overkill. Text-based representation also doesn't seem
>>> ideal, iptables already has this information and a cmdline user will
>>> simply use "iptables ... -h" to get the supported option. For other
>>> programs a binary representation would probably be easier to handle.
>> Agreed. The text-based interface seems to me like yet-another-interface
>> that users may (ab)use (like /proc/net/nf_conntrack, I have seen people
>> polling from it to display information, this was OK in the early days).
>> Following this basis, one may come and implement another text-based
>> interface to display the rule-set in the kernel and so on.
> 
> But is there an equivalent user tool and interface at this time
> to obtain the same information?

No that I know of, but that doesn't matter as long as nobody has a
need for it.