Re: ROUTE patch

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2009-02-24 14:41, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> 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().
>>
> It cannot use dst_output because that would cause reentrancy into iptablse.
> Want a patch, though?

I would like to have a look at the current patch, yes. Don't
bother fixing anything though, I mainly want to have a look
at the routing part.