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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft 1/2] parser_bison: dismiss anonymous meters
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:56:49 +0100
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Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> The former 'flow table' syntax allows flow tables with no name:
> 
>  # nft add rule x y flow { ip saddr counter }
> 
> However, when listing, it leaks the name that it is autoallocating.
> 
>  # nft list ruleset
>  table ip x {
>         chain y {
>                 flow table __mt0 { ip saddr counter}
>         }
>  }
> 
> Which is odd since then restoring will use such a name.

Right.

> Remove anonymous flow table/meters, so everyone needs to specify a name.

Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>