From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: nftables add vs replace Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:17:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20140122091725.GA4626@localhost> References: <20140121110645.GC25197@macbook.localnet> <20140121112700.GA21772@localhost> <20140121114524.GA27552@macbook.localnet> <20140122083811.GA4228@localhost> <20140122085440.GA30195@macbook.localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez , Netfilter Development Mailing list To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:58824 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753785AbaAVJR3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jan 2014 04:17:29 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140122085440.GA30195@macbook.localnet> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 :)