From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_SYSRQ
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:17:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCEFACC.7020804@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1004211506280.10840@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2010-04-21 14:59, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> The SYSRQ target will allow to remotely invoke sysrq on the local
>>> machine. Authentication is by means of a pre-shared key that can
>>> either be transmitted plaintext or digest-secured.
>> I really think this is pushing what netfilter is meant for a bit
>> far. Its basically abusing the firewall ruleset to offer a network
>> service.
>>
>> I can see that its useful to have this in the kernel instead of
>> userspace, but why isn't this implemented as a stand-alone module?
>> That seems like a better design to me and also makes it more useful
>> by not depending on netfilter.
>
> That sort of diverts from the earlier what-seemed-to-be-consensus.
>
> Oh well, I would not mind holding the single commit up as long as the
> rest isn't blocked too :-)
Then lets skip this one for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-21 10:26 nf-next: sysrq and condition 20100421 Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-21 10:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_SYSRQ Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-21 12:59 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-21 13:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-21 13:17 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-04-21 13:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-28 14:43 ` John Haxby
2010-04-28 14:54 ` John Haxby
2010-04-28 15:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-28 15:50 ` John Haxby
2010-07-25 16:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-07-25 18:13 ` John Haxby
2012-01-05 13:19 ` Shan Wei
2010-04-21 10:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_condition Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-21 13:07 ` Patrick McHardy
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