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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
To: Jethro Beekman <kernel@jbeekman.nl>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH iptables] Hide FORWARD chain if forwarding is not enabled
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:28:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AE8ACB.1030800@plouf.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53AE6FFD.5080109@jbeekman.nl>

Jethro Beekman a écrit :
> Most Linux distributions have IP forwarding disabled and it gets me every time.
> The FORWARD chain is pretty much useless with forwarding disabled, so make
> ip{,6}tables -L print a message notifying the user instead of actually listing
> the contents.

As a user I prefer to have the ability to check rules in the FORWARD
chains before enabling IP forwarding.
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-28  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-28  7:34 [RFC PATCH iptables] Hide FORWARD chain if forwarding is not enabled Jethro Beekman
2014-06-28  9:28 ` Pascal Hambourg [this message]
2014-07-20  8:58 ` Pascal Hambourg

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