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From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To:     Alex Forster <aforster@cloudflare.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_NFLOG: allow 128 character log prefixes
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Alex Forster wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> We have been able to migrate some parts of this workload to the
> nftables subsystem by treating network namespaces sort of like VRFs.
> Unfortunately, we have not been able to use nftables to handle all
> traffic, since it does not have an equivalent for xt_bpf.

I'm not refering to nftables, I'm refering to iptables-nft.