From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart De Schuymer Subject: Re: Merging iptables-nftables into iptables Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 22:15:46 +0100 Message-ID: <52A0ED02.40603@pandora.be> References: <20131204114834.GA13280@localhost> <20131205082409.GB4557@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Netfilter Development Mailing list To: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Arturo Borrero Gonzalez Return-path: Received: from gerard.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.48]:54877 "EHLO gerard.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751352Ab3LEVPx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:15:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20131205082409.GB4557@localhost> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pablo Neira Ayuso schreef op 5/12/2013 9:24: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 04:11:18PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: >> On 4 December 2013 12:48, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The iptables-nftables tree [1] currently stores the iptables over >>> nftables compatibility support. This allows you to run iptables >>> commands using the nftables kernel infrastructure. >>> >>> JFYI, my plan is to merge the iptables-nftables into iptables at some >>> point of this week given that it contains stuff that is scheduled for >>> 3.13. After that merge, the iptables-nftables will be disabled. >>> >>> [1] http://git.netfilter.org/iptables-nftables/ >> Could you give some hints about releases of userspace stuff? >> (libnftables, nft, new iptables...) >> >> Is 3.13 a deadline for releases? > The initial release of the userspace libraries and tools will happen > by when the Linux kernel 3.13 is released, that should happen by the > beginning of 2014. > > The nftables compatibility layer (the so-called iptables-nftables) > will be included in regular iptables releases, since it will be part > of that package. Nice to see this progress. What are the plans/obstacles (if any?) for migrating ebtables/arptables to nftables? cheers, Bart