From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] NFQUEUE: add new v1 version with queue-balance option
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:33:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090605133327.GH29745@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0906051528200.7950@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
> >Hm, v1 is tied to ipv4/6 on the kernel side, thats why I wanted to make
> >this explicit here, too.
>
> It is not needed. iptables's .family and the kernel's .family fields
> are not linked in any way. That is why libxt_length.c can have
> NFPROTO_UNSPEC even if the kernel's xt_length.c happens not to
> (because it inspects L3proto-dependent headers).
I didn't know this was common practice. Thanks for explaining, I will use
_UNSPEC as you suggested.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-05 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 1:17 NFQUEUE balancing extension (userspace changes) Florian Westphal
2009-06-05 1:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] NFQUEUE: use NFPROTO_UNSPEC Florian Westphal
2009-06-05 12:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-05 13:23 ` Florian Westphal
2009-06-05 1:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] NFQUEUE: add new v1 version with queue-balance option Florian Westphal
2009-06-05 13:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-05 13:27 ` Florian Westphal
2009-06-05 13:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-05 13:33 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2009-06-05 11:28 ` NFQUEUE balancing extension (userspace changes) Patrick McHardy
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