From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [question] ipt_CLUSTERIP and address length
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:03:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B867511.7050204@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100225125631.GF2667@psychotron.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com>
Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:54:50PM CET, jengelh@medozas.de wrote:
>> On Thursday 2010-02-25 13:18, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>>>> I want to ask if there is any particular reason for ipt_CLUSTERIP to support
>>>>> only address length of 6 (ETH_ALEN)? It seems to me reasonable for this to work
>>>>> even with another types of network hw with different addr_len.
>>>> None that I'm aware of, but the length is also used in the ABI,
>>>> so you presently can't supply larger addresses.
>>> Not directly related to this but I wanted to discuss this time ago. Now
>>> that we have xt_CLUSTER I think that we can deprecate ipt_CLUSTERIP.
>> xt_CLUSTER - where in the tree would that be?
>
> I was trying to find it too. I guess it stands out of it (at least net-next).
sorry, it's xt_cluster, no capitalization.
pablo@decadence:~/devel/scm/git/nf-2.6$ ls net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c
It's there since quite some time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-25 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 10:12 [question] ipt_CLUSTERIP and address length Jiri Pirko
2010-02-25 10:23 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-25 11:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-25 11:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2010-02-25 12:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-25 12:13 ` Jiri Pirko
2010-02-25 12:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-02-25 12:23 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-25 12:38 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-02-25 12:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-25 12:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2010-02-25 13:03 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2010-02-25 12:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
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