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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Verdict with ebtables?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:48:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDBC9E9.2010508@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikxkvB2pagQswH1S8=sxA+OVfWrqO45FD6+hDQE@mail.gmail.com>

On 11.11.2010 11:05, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> Hi,
> It seems to me that its not possible to do a verdict in userspace of
> ethernet packets, like it is done with nfqueue and iptables.
> Why it is not implemented?

Nobody ever implemented it. IIRC the main problem is that under
certain circumstances the packets need to be passed back to
__netif_receive_skb() when queuing in LOCAL_IN, which isn't
possible from the completion handler.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTinCazaFKSXnfGe2e0nnfeRorV7AHcadQaxGvWg+@mail.gmail.com>
2010-11-09 18:30 ` Verdict with ebtables? Kfir Lavi
2010-11-09 22:41   ` Angel Inkov
2010-11-11 10:05 ` Kfir Lavi
2010-11-11 10:48   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-11-14 11:56     ` Kfir Lavi
2010-11-15  9:39       ` Patrick McHardy

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