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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com,
	Sulakshan Vajipayajula <svajipay@in.ibm.com>,
	vivk@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/4] netfilter: "fail-open" feature support for NFQUEUE
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:52:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120507145228.GC5015@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF72EDDD93.E0BF0FC1-ON652579F7.002FC182-652579F7.004C26E2@in.ibm.com>

Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote on 05/07/2012 01:40:29 PM:
> > I think that exposing this feature as userspace-changeable via netlink
> > (eg. by adding "NFQA_CFG_FAILOPEN" attribute) rather than via ruleset
> > would make most sense, as only the application can know wheter it
> > can cope with missing packets.
> 
> Thanks for your review. With this change, is there any reason to
> modify xt_NFQ_info_v2's bypass field, since app can specify this
> option directly? I tested without this for now and it works.

I don't think so. If the netlink attribute works for you we should
leave xt_NFQUEUE as-is.

Regards,
Florian

      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07  6:03 [RFC] [PATCH 0/4] netfilter: "fail-open" feature support for NFQUEUE Krishna Kumar
2012-05-07  6:03 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/4] netfilter: Define FAILOPEN flag Krishna Kumar
2012-05-07  6:04 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/4] netfilter: Add new argument to enqueue handlers Krishna Kumar
2012-05-07  6:04 ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: Add support for failopen in nf_queue() Krishna Kumar
2012-05-07  6:04 ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/4] netfilter: Enable fail-open Krishna Kumar
2012-05-07  7:56   ` Florian Westphal
2012-05-07  9:04     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-05-07  8:10 ` [RFC] [PATCH 0/4] netfilter: "fail-open" feature support for NFQUEUE Florian Westphal
2012-05-07  9:14   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-05-07 13:51   ` Krishna Kumar2
2012-05-07 14:52     ` Florian Westphal [this message]

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