From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Troubles with MARK target in 2.6.28 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:33:47 +0100 Message-ID: <4970385B.3000209@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> <496F5E6C.3030703@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 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?