From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Alex Forster <aforster@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Kyle Bowman <kbowman@cloudflare.com>,
kernel-team <kernel-team@cloudflare.com>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_NFLOG: allow 128 character log prefixes
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 23:10:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210727211029.GA17432@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKxSbF0tjY7EV=OOyfND8CxSmusfghvURQYnBxMz=DoNtGrfSg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 03:06:05PM -0500, Alex Forster wrote:
> (And again, this time as plain-text...)
>
> > Why do you need to make the two consistent? iptables NFLOG prefix
> > length is a subset of nftables log action, this is sufficient for the
> > iptables-nft layer. I might be missing the use-case on your side,
> > could you please elaborate?
>
> We use the nflog prefix space to attach various bits of metadata to
> iptables and nftables rules that are dynamically generated and
> installed on our edge. 63 printable chars is a bit too tight to fit
> everything that we need, so we're running this patch internally and
> are looking to upstream it.
It should be possible to update iptables-nft to use nft_log from
userspace (instead of xt_LOG) which removes this limitation, there is
no need for a kernel upgrade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-27 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-27 19:00 [PATCH] netfilter: xt_NFLOG: allow 128 character log prefixes Kyle Bowman
2021-07-27 19:54 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-07-27 20:06 ` Alex Forster
2021-07-27 21:10 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2021-07-27 21:22 ` Alex Forster
2021-07-27 21:27 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-07-27 21:44 ` Alex Forster
2021-07-27 21:52 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-07-27 22:45 ` Alex Forster
2021-07-27 23:02 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-07-28 1:43 ` [netfilter-core] " Phil Sutter
2021-07-30 18:27 ` Kyle Bowman
2021-08-01 14:14 ` Jeremy Sowden
2021-08-02 11:20 ` Jeremy Sowden
2021-08-02 16:40 ` Jeremy Sowden
2021-08-03 9:06 ` Jeremy Sowden
2021-08-03 18:36 ` Kyle Bowman
2021-08-05 10:42 ` Jeremy Sowden
2021-08-05 21:07 ` Jeremy Sowden
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