From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Netfilter Development Mailing list
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Shivani Bhardwaj <shivanib134@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: nft compat layer
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:11:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160116201113.GA13076@macbook.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOkSjBhpqYQ01xOehhG7zFAzStOcTttQTk1JcLaP_UnAWSzmPw@mail.gmail.com>
On 15.01, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm giving a spin to the nft compat layer, since it can be of certain
> importance for distributions.
>
> I just want to be clear on what I recommends to end users about
> migrating from iptables (and friends) to nftables.
>
> Could you please remind me in which state was the discussion about
> that patch to show x_tables extensions in nftables rulesets [0]?
> I remember Patrick mentioned several concerns back then about this approach.
My concerns were mainly about unconditionally giving access to ipt extensions
from *nft*. It was not about the compat layer in the kernel, but about whether
we actually do want to support everything or just conditionally enable those
that we are sure of.
> Currently, with a basic ruleset errors are shown [1]. Also, if you try
> to see what's happening, segfaults [2].
>
> I'm aware of the translations efforts being made by Shivani.
>
> [0] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/459398/
> [1] http://paste.debian.net/366059
> [2] http://paste.debian.net/366060/
>
> best regards.
>
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> Arturo Borrero González
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-16 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-15 20:06 nft compat layer Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2016-01-16 20:11 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2016-01-18 8:59 ` Andreas Schultz
2016-01-18 10:25 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2016-01-19 19:04 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-01-20 14:47 ` Andreas Schultz
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