From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Varun Chandramohan Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: First release of nftables Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:43:26 +0530 Message-ID: <49C0C946.4090606@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <49C078B6.4020603@trash.net> <87tz5r17ac.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <49C0C74A.1090709@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andi Kleen , Netfilter Development Mailinglist , Linux Netdev List To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49C0C74A.1090709@trash.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Patrick McHardy wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Patrick McHardy 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. > > So, in that case if you are not going to provide a "skin" and that iptables will be removed eventually. wouldnt it break applications using iptables? Sorry for such a basic question, but just curious. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >