From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] iptables: accept multiple IP address specifications for -s, -d Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:12:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4A2C2D26.6000605@netfilter.org> References: <1244229955-27642-1-git-send-email-jengelh@medozas.de> <1244229955-27642-2-git-send-email-jengelh@medozas.de> <4A2A1260.7050207@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kaber@trash.net, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:49592 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753698AbZFGVtm (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:49:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Saturday 2009-06-06 08:53, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >>> # ip6tables -I INPUT -s 2001:db8::d,2001:db8::e -j DROP >>> >>> References: http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=123929790719202&w=2 >> I think this is handy for users so I can find it useful. >> >> The only concern that I have with this is that it changes the existing >> 1:1 mapping between commands and iptables rules. I mean, people may get >> confused because of this "rule expansion" feature, they may think that >> we natively support layer 3 address sets? Probably it's a matter of >> documenting this. > > Hence: > >>> +Multiple addresses can be specified when, but this will \fBreplicate\fP the >> ^^^^ >> This sentence is incomplete? I suggest to refer to the rule expansion >> feature. > > Well, I think replicate hits the expansion pretty good. To replicate means to make a copy, and this is not what this does. But, to be frank, I really don't care. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers