Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2 21/21] iplink: bridge: add support for netfilter call attributes

Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2 21/21] iplink: bridge: add support for netfilter call attributes

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

Hi Nikolay,

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 12:14:39AM +0100, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
> 
> This patch implements support for the IFLA_BR_NF_CALL_(IP|IP6|ARP)TABLES
> attributes in iproute2 so it can change their values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
> ---
>  ip/iplink_bridge.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/ip/iplink_bridge.c b/ip/iplink_bridge.c
> index a55a36adacdf..1b666f0adef4 100644
> --- a/ip/iplink_bridge.c
> +++ b/ip/iplink_bridge.c
> @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ static void print_explain(FILE *f)
>  		"                  [ mcast_query_interval QUERY_INTERVAL ]\n"
>  		"                  [ mcast_query_response_interval QUERY_RESPONSE_INTERVAL ]\n"
>  		"                  [ mcast_startup_query_interval STARTUP_QUERY_INTERVAL ]\n"
> +		"                  [ nf_call_iptables NF_CALL_IPTABLES ]\n"
> +		"                  [ nf_call_ip6tables NF_CALL_IP6TABLES ]\n"
> +		"                  [ nf_call_arptables NF_CALL_ARPTABLES ]\n"

We will soon have conntrack support for bridge, that will help us kill
this bridge_netfilter glue code that has caused us many headaches.

So I'd prefer not to give more exposition to this.