From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rfc: reject use of drop in nat table
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:08:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4897539C.1080102@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808042050300.7375@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> This just happened to be within my thoughts. Comments, declinations?
>> Well, first thought is the usual fear of breaking setups.
>>
>> But I do agree that this makes sense, we've had a number
>> of "bugreports" over the years from people how tried to
>> do filtering in the nat table and didn't realize it only
>> sees the first packet of a connection.
>>
>> Not sure - anyone else with an opinion? :)
>
> Instead of the line
>
> + exit_error(OTHER_PROBLEM, "The nat table is not for filtering");
>
> the next one would probably be little bit more user friendly:
>
> + fprintf(stderr, "The nat table is not for filtering, next iptables release won't support it at all. Fix your setup.\n");
>
> And in the next release it could be changed to 'exit_error'.
That sounds good, lets do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-04 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 16:54 rfc: reject use of drop in nat table Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-04 16:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-08-04 18:05 ` Phil Oester
2008-08-04 18:55 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2008-08-04 19:08 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-08-10 14:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-13 12:42 ` Patrick McHardy
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