From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: gapsf@yandex.ru
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Subject: Re: nftables: introspection capabilities?
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 19:33:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDE8EF9.8090208@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510322597.20110524161458@yandex.ru>
On 24/05/11 11:14, gapsf@yandex.ru wrote:
>>> There is no doubt that for nftables frontends will be written too, so the question is:
>>> "Will nfatbles be able to find out various information
>>> about their own current state: tables, chains, rules, etc?"
>
> JE> You can already obtain this information by using libiptc, iterating over
> JE> all rules and testing for a particular src/dst address (very much like
> JE> poor man's `grep -s 1.2.3.4\b` on the text output).
> According to Wikipedia "libiptc ... shouldn't be used as a public API,
> and is known to change, which breaks programs that use it"
> and libiptc is a 3d party project - not netfilter.org's and outdated, isn't it?
>
> As for nftables: means native capabilities of it's kernelspace code (aka virtual machine).
just to clarify, that's not a virtual machine but a pseudo-state machine
in the BPF fashion, OK?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 8:21 nftables: introspection capabilities? gapsf
2011-05-24 8:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-24 9:14 ` Re[2]: " gapsf
2011-05-24 9:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-26 17:33 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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