From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: First release of nftables
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:04:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C0C74A.1090709@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tz5r17ac.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> writes:
>
>> The userspace frontend is probably even more different to iptables than
>> the kernel.
>>
>
> Are there plans to implement the existing iptables/ipchains/ipfw user
> interfaces on top of nftables?
>
I've thought about a "skin" in userspace to parse the iptables syntax
and convert it to the new syntax. But the kernel won't have a compatibility
interface and I'm not sure yet whether userspace will also be able to output
iptables syntax. ipchains etc. definitely not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-18 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-18 4:29 [ANNOUNCE]: First release of nftables Patrick McHardy
2009-03-18 8:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-18 8:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-18 8:28 ` Patrick McHardy
[not found] ` <20090318092039.GA2511@squirrel.roonstrasse.net>
2009-03-18 9:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-18 9:58 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-18 10:04 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-18 10:13 ` Varun Chandramohan
2009-03-18 10:17 ` Patrick McHardy
[not found] <20090318112937.675BF13A4B0@koiott.tartu-labor>
2009-03-18 12:00 ` Meelis Roos
2009-03-18 14:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-18 14:52 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-03-18 14:58 ` Patrick McHardy
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