From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>,
Netfilter Development Mailing list
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nftables add vs replace
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:17:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122091725.GA4626@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140122085440.GA30195@macbook.localnet>
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:54:40AM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:38:11AM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:45:25AM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I think the semantics of "flush table" should be changed though. It should
> > > kill *every* object in the table. Perhaps not the base chains, but at least
> > > all rules, non base chain and also sets.
> >
> > I think we need to add a new flush operation with the new semantics
> > and keep the old one, at least the compat layer needs a flush
> > operation that leaves all chain objects intact to imitate iptables -F.
>
> How about:
>
> flush table: flushes everything, removes chains and sets
This is what Arturo has been asking for his new import/export feature.
> flush chains: flushes rules within all chains (iptables -F)
> flush chain: flushes rules within a chain
This last one also allows -F tablename. There's code for these two, so
I think we only need the "massive destruction" flush mode :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-21 11:06 nftables add vs replace Patrick McHardy
2014-01-21 11:27 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-01-21 11:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-21 11:37 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-01-21 11:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-21 15:15 ` Phil Oester
2014-01-21 17:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-22 8:38 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-01-22 8:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-22 9:17 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2014-01-22 9:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-21 11:46 ` Tomasz Bursztyka
2014-01-21 11:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-21 12:08 ` Tomasz Bursztyka
2014-01-21 12:11 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-21 12:17 ` Tomasz Bursztyka
2014-01-21 12:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-21 12:49 ` Tomasz Bursztyka
2014-01-21 14:05 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-01-21 15:10 ` Patrick McHardy
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