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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: nft option to flush out the existing ruleset [was Re: [libnftnl PATCH] examples: add nft-ruleset-replace]
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:09:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140826110954.GA5648@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140826095716.3463.89684.stgit@nfdev.cica.es>

Renaming the subject to make it to start a new discussion on something
related. Cc'ing Patrick too, perhaps he can pull some better idea out
of his hat.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:57:16AM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> This code examples uses the new NFT_MSG_DELTABLE functionality to replace
> an entire ruleset in a single transaction/batch.

Thanks for the example but we already have quite a lot of them, and
this is yet another almost copy and paste that would need to be
maintained.

Please, implement this in nft. I think we can probably have an -x
option, eg.

nft -f -x ruleset-file

The '-x' indicates that you want to flush any previous existing
configuration before loading this 'ruleset-file'.

-xx could also be used to remove any configuration regarding the
existing families in the ruleset-file, ie. if the ruleset-file only
contains a configuration for 'ip', all remaining families are left
untouched.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-26 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-26  9:57 [libnftnl PATCH] examples: add nft-ruleset-replace Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-08-26 11:09 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2014-08-26 12:14   ` nft option to flush out the existing ruleset [was Re: [libnftnl PATCH] examples: add nft-ruleset-replace] Patrick McHardy
2014-08-26 13:12     ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-08-26 13:30       ` Patrick McHardy
2014-08-26 13:47         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-08-26 14:35           ` Patrick McHardy
2014-08-26 13:38       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-09-01 15:07   ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-09-01 15:17     ` Patrick McHardy

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