Re: 2.6.12: connection tracking broken?

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005@gmx.net>]

Herbert Xu schrieb:
> 
> Longer term though we should obsolete the ipt_physdev module.  The
> rationale there is that this creates a precedence that we can't
> possibly maintain in a consistent way.  For example, we don't have
> a target that matches by hardware MAC address.  If you wanted to
> do that, you'd hook into the arptables interface rather than deferring
> iptables after the creation of the hardware header.
> 
> This can be done in two stages to minimise pain for people already
> using it:
> 
> 1) We rewrite ipt_physdev to do the lookups necessary to get the output
> physical devices through the bridge layer.  Of course this may not be
> the real output device due to changes in the environment.  So this should
> be accompanied with a warning that users should switch to ebt.
> 
> 2) We remove the iptables deferring since ipt_physdev will no longer need
> it.
> 
> 3) After a set period (say a year or so) we remove ipt_physdev altogether.

For my local setup it is already a minor PITA that there is no tool
combining the functionality of arptables, ebtables and iptables, but
I can cope with the help of marking and ipt_physdev. If that doesn't
work reliably anymore, I'll be stuck.

Wasn't someone working on a unified framework for *tables? IIRC that
would have been pkttables, but Harald(?) said there was not much
code there yet.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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