From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7 RFC] Netfilter/nf_tables ingress support Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:09:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20150410200901.GB5968@salvia> References: <1428668142-4006-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> <20150410132205.GF23070@casper.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net To: Thomas Graf Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:53482 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751947AbbDJUEs (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:04:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150410132205.GF23070@casper.infradead.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 02:22:05PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 04/10/15 at 02:15pm, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > This patchset adds the Netfilter hook at the ingress path, in a per-device > > fashion. This also comes with the new nf_tables 'netdev' family support to > > provide access to users to the existing nf_tables features. This includes the > > transactional netlink API and the enhanced set infrastructure. Several patches > > come in first place to prepare this support, including the refactoring of > > __netif_receive_skb_core() to accomodate the new hook. > > Is the goal to eventually replace ebtables with this? No, nftables comes with a bridge family that will eventually replace ebtables.