From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] iptables: accept multiple IP address specifications for -s, -d
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:50:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2D171E.9060401@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2A1260.7050207@netfilter.org>
Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> From: Michael Granzow <mgranzow@zeus.com>
>>
>> libiptc already supports adding and deleting multiple rules with
>> different addresses, so it only needs to be wired up to the options.
>>
>> # 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.
>
> I'd like to know what Patrick thinks about this anyway.
No objections besides that its too large for this late in the cycle.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-08 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 19:25 iptables: pull request June-05 Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-05 19:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] iptables: accept multiple IP address specifications for -s, -d Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-06 6:53 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-06-06 11:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-07 21:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-06-08 13:50 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-06-10 12:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-10 12:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-25 17:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-07-16 14:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-07-17 14:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-07-17 15:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-05 19:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] DNAT/SNAT: add manpage documentation for --persistent flag Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-08 13:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-05 19:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] extensions: remove redundant casts Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-08 13:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-08 13:45 ` iptables: pull request June-05 Patrick McHardy
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