From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@gmail.com>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Allow dropping packet after call to l4proto->packet
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:27:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B945E7.7080203@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0903121634070.12067@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2009-03-12 16:13, Christoph Paasch wrote:
>
>> As NF_DROP = 0, no packets would ever have been dropped.
>
> Mh would not it be safer to actually give NF_DROP a real value so that
> -NF_DROP also makes sense?
> (Might need checking places where NF_DROP is used.)
We cannot change the current value of NF_DROP. This is exposed to
userspace in libnetfilter_queue. Changing the value would break backward
compatibility of existing applications.
--
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-12 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-12 13:44 l4_packet returning NF_DROP Christoph Paasch
2009-03-12 15:02 ` Christoph Paasch
2009-03-12 15:13 ` [PATCH] netfilter: Allow dropping packet after call to l4proto->packet Christoph Paasch
2009-03-12 15:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-12 15:49 ` Christoph Paasch
2009-03-12 16:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-12 17:27 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2009-03-12 17:26 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-13 8:27 ` Christoph Paasch
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