From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: ROUTE patch Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:41:54 +0100 Message-ID: <49A3F922.4050508@trash.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Abhishek Singh , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:64813 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752803AbZBXNl7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:41:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2009-02-24 09:59, Abhishek Singh wrote: >> What I would like to know is that if someone would like to add it to >> the main iptables tree and the patchomatic repository. I am not sure >> how to go about it. If someone is interested, please let me know. I >> shall contribute the code and if would be happy to incorporate review >> comments by other developers. > > [omg timeline!] > > Short answer, no. There is iproute2 and xt_TEE which replace it, > and even patchomatic is gone. > > [/me takes a leap forward] Perhaps we can finally get this merged. IIRC the only reason against it is the IP layer duplication instead of simply using dst_output().