From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Eric Garver <e@erig.me>,
danw@redhat.com, aauren@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [iptables PATCH 3/4] Add --compat option to *tables-nft and *-nft-restore commands
Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 13:28:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230531112816.GA26130@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZHcNDxfJmxcEEDB8@orbyte.nwl.cc>
Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> Then I revived my "rule bytecode for output" approach and got it working
> apart from lookup expression. But finally you axed it since it requires
> kernel adjustments.
Can you remind me what the problem with userdata is/was?
Brief summary will hopefully be enough ...
I agree text representation sucks due to two different formats, but what
about storing binary blob (xt format) of the rule in userdata?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-31 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-05 18:34 [iptables PATCH 0/4] Implement a best-effort forward compat solution Phil Sutter
2023-05-05 18:34 ` [iptables PATCH 1/4] nft: Pass nft_handle to add_{target,action}() Phil Sutter
2023-05-05 18:34 ` [iptables PATCH 2/4] nft: Introduce and use bool nft_handle::compat Phil Sutter
2023-05-05 18:34 ` [iptables PATCH 3/4] Add --compat option to *tables-nft and *-nft-restore commands Phil Sutter
2023-05-31 0:16 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-05-31 9:02 ` Phil Sutter
2023-05-31 11:28 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2023-05-31 12:10 ` Phil Sutter
2023-06-23 16:52 ` Phil Sutter
2023-05-05 18:34 ` [iptables PATCH 4/4] tests: Test compat mode Phil Sutter
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