From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Troubles with MARK target in 2.6.28 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:03:56 +0100 Message-ID: <496F5E6C.3030703@trash.net> References: <86617ABF8F494F2A940C18251E3DC8D0@Hakkenden> <496AE0E3.1030009@trash.net> <496AEC64.5040202@trash.net> <496AEEB0.3080905@trash.net> <496F40DC.2000605@trash.net> <496F42F0.7050305@netfilter.org> <496F5C25.2010702@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , "Nikolay S. Rybalov" , netfilter@vger.kernel.org, Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2009-01-15 16:54, Patrick McHardy wrote: >>>> Agreed. The text-based interface seems to me like yet-another-interface >>>> that users may (ab)use (like /proc/net/nf_conntrack, I have seen people >>>> polling from it to display information, this was OK in the early days). >>>> Following this basis, one may come and implement another text-based >>>> interface to display the rule-set in the kernel and so on. >>> But is there an equivalent user tool and interface at this time >>> to obtain the same information? >> No that I know of, but that doesn't matter as long as nobody has a >> need for it. >> > As a developer of Xtables modules I have a need ;-) That was one of my first thoughts, it looks mainly useful for developers. And I'm not very fond of the idea of adding almost 300 lines of segfile beauty for that.