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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7 nft] src: add tunnel template support
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Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de> wrote:
> From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> 
> This patch adds tunnel template support, this allows to attach a
> metadata template that provides the configuration for the tunnel driver.
> 
> Example of generic tunnel configuration:
> 
>  table netdev x {
>         tunnel y {
>                 id 10
>                 ip saddr 192.168.2.10
>                 ip daddr 192.168.2.11
>                 sport 10
>                 dport 20
>                 ttl 10
>         }
>  }

Dumb question, how would such a 'generic' tunnel be used?
Or is this just an intermediate step that adds the common code?