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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Cc: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	Netfilter Development Mailing list
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	coreteam@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next 0/2] netfilter: autoload NAT support for non-builtin L4 protocols
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:20:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161007142052.GB7063@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOkSjBi8zZCyZ-7pqpiboK5HcnTohtx0vscA73wjHNzH-r5FHw@mail.gmail.com>

Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unlike in iptables, in nftables we don't know the expected l4 protocol
> at rule setup time.
> 
> In the iptables<->nftables compat layer, we have an expression
> attribute which is filled from userspace with the l4 protocol
> (NFTA_RULE_COMPAT_PROTO).
> 
> Not sure if it's worth adding a new netlink attribute for nft_nat to
> tell the expression about the expected l4 NAT protocol.

Right, it might more sense to handle this in nft frontend
instead.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-07 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-06 17:09 [PATCH nf-next 0/2] netfilter: autoload NAT support for non-builtin L4 protocols Davide Caratti
2016-10-06 17:09 ` [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: persistent aliases for l4 nat protocols Davide Caratti
2016-10-06 17:09 ` [PATCH nf-next 2/2] xt_nat: probe module for non-builtin L4 protocols Davide Caratti
2016-10-07  7:35 ` [PATCH nf-next 0/2] netfilter: autoload NAT support " Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2016-10-07  9:59   ` Davide Caratti
2016-10-07 10:32     ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2016-10-07 14:20       ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2016-10-17 17:58 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-10-18  9:12   ` Davide Caratti
2016-10-19 12:23     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-10-19 12:57       ` Florian Westphal
2016-10-19 15:56         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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