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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux PATCH v3 2/5] netfilter: nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4: code factorization
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 12:41:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140704104144.GA6296@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <698ea380-0754-47de-a4a1-9023ebf8388c@email.android.com>

Hi Patrick,

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 02:23:20PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On 1. Juli 2014 18:30:54 MESZ, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Let's refactor the code so we can reach the masquerade functionality
> >from
> >outside the xt context (ie, nftables).
> >
> >The patch includes adding an atomic counter to the masquerade notifier:
> >the
> >stuff to be done by the notifier is the same in any case, and agnostic
> >about who called it. Only one notification handler is needed.
> >
> >This factorization only involves IPv4; a similar patch will follow to
> >handle
> >IPv6.
> 
> Just a suggestion, the NAT support is parameterizable at  runtime.
> An alternative would be an expression to load the local address.

That seems quite natural way to make it without requiring kernel
changes, I like it. The only problem that I see is that I don't come
up with a way to handle the conntrack cleanup case that needs to
happen if the interface is brought down with this approach.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-01 16:29 [linux PATCH v3 0/5] NAT updates for nf_tables Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-07-01 16:30 ` [linux PATCH v3 1/5] netfilter: nft_nat: include a flag attribute Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-07-01 16:30 ` [linux PATCH v3 2/5] netfilter: nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4: code factorization Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-07-03 12:23   ` Patrick McHardy
2014-07-04 10:41     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2014-07-01 16:31 ` [linux PATCH v3 3/5] netfilter: nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6: " Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-07-01 16:32 ` [linux PATCH v3 4/5] netfilter: nft_nat: split code in AF parts Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-07-01 16:33 ` [linux PATCH v3 5/5] netfilter: nft_nat: add masquerade support Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-07-25 16:48 ` [linux PATCH v3 0/5] NAT updates for nf_tables Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-07-25 16:54   ` Patrick McHardy

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