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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, Patrick Schaaf <netdev@bof.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nftables with ipset combined types
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:28:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27f7b03e-5dd5-4e6b-a0fe-099f07fbea6f@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140202235734.GA6793@localhost>

On 2. Februar 2014 23:57:34 GMT+00:00, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:34:12PM +0100, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
>> Hi Pablo,
>> 
>> another useful feature of ipset is that the same set is usable in the
>> filter, nat, and mangle tables.
>> 
>> If I'm not mistaken, sets in nftables are right now scoped within a
>table,
>> so I could not reuse them in that fashion.
>
>The table <-> set link is currently needed to check for loops if
>verdict maps are used. But AFAICS, for sets with no verdict maps using
>jump to chain, this limitation could be removed. I'll add this to my
>TODO list.

While this might be useful, I don't think it justifies more than minor code changes since the user can just as well only use a single table.

Regarding TODO lists, I think it would be good to put the bigger items in the nftables TODO list. I'll start by cleaning it up and adding my current items.



      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-03 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-29  7:27 nftables with ipset combined types Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2014-01-29  9:30 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-01-29 11:34   ` Patrick Schaaf
2014-01-29 11:48     ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-02-02 23:57     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-02-03 20:28       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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