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From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
	Netfilter Developer Mailing List
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rfc: reject use of drop in nat table
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:05:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080804180551.GA20903@linuxace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489734F1.8040808@trash.net>

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:57:21PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Well, first thought is the usual fear of breaking setups.

If they are doing this, their setup is _already_ broken.  This
will fix it ;-)

> But I do agree that this makes sense, we've had a number
> of "bugreports" over the years from people how tried to
> do filtering in the nat table and didn't realize it only
> sees the first packet of a connection.
>
> Not sure - anyone else with an opinion? :)

+1

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-04 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 16:54 rfc: reject use of drop in nat table Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-04 16:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-08-04 18:05   ` Phil Oester [this message]
2008-08-04 18:55   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2008-08-04 19:08     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-08-10 14:44       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-13 12:42         ` Patrick McHardy

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