Re: Troubles with MARK target in 2.6.28

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2009-01-15 17:03, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Then you probably won't like it if I say that the same logic is
> needed if I shall make the existing proc-files multi-nfproto aware.

What does "multi-nfproto aware" mean exactly?