From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, hawk@diku.dk, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip: add loose reverse path filtering
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:56:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090221.235601.92406212.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090221130907.GA28765@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:09:07 +0800
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> > Extend existing reverse path filter option to allow strict or loose
> > filtering. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_path_filtering).
> >
> > For compatibility with existing usage, the value 1 is chosen for strict mode
> > and 2 for loose mode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
>
> Rather than extending the rp_filter stuff any further, I'd prefer
> to see this replaced with netfilter plugin.
Normally I would agree, but in this case the cost is exactly
zero for the added flexibility.
So I'll apply this to net-next-2.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-22 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-20 18:25 [PATCH] ip: add loose reverse path filtering Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-21 13:09 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-22 7:56 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-02-22 8:34 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-23 21:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
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