From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Quentin Headen <qheaden@phaseshiftsoftware.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Starting point in netfilter development
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 22:43:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140702204323.GA22753@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgy_YJ8wdPm6P2M_bPVXqbHzJ6oQxWT-3DmfQpikqPma=SDAA@mail.gmail.com>
Quentin Headen <qheaden@phaseshiftsoftware.com> wrote:
> Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote:
> > nftables is currently under active development; f.e. you could
> > add one of the missing iptables extensions such as hashlimit
> > or nfacct.
>
> Working on hashlimit for nftables sounds interesting.
Its not very beginner-friendly though.
nfacct *might* be a bit simpler.
Maybe someone else has a better idea.
> > nf.git and nf-next.git from kernel.org. git.netfilter.org
> > mostly hosts the userspace tools like iptables/nftables
> > and the associated libraries.
>
> So to work on hashlimit functionality for nftables, I'm guessing I
> would need to work with the code found on git.netfilter.org? Would it
> be mostly a userspace coding experience?
Yes, most of the functionality should be in userspace, but it
would need kernel support as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-02 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-30 13:03 Starting point in netfilter development Quentin Headen
2014-06-30 15:22 ` Florian Westphal
2014-07-01 1:45 ` Quentin Headen
2014-07-02 20:43 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2014-07-03 9:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-07-05 5:15 ` Quentin Headen
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