From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Bursztyka Subject: Re: Merging iptables-nftables into iptables Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:15:58 +0200 Message-ID: <52A97ECE.8020000@linux.intel.com> References: <20131204114834.GA13280@localhost> <20131205082409.GB4557@localhost> <52A0ED02.40603@pandora.be> <20131205215447.GA4367@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez , Netfilter Development Mailing list To: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Bart De Schuymer Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:18618 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873Ab3LLJQB (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Dec 2013 04:16:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20131205215447.GA4367@localhost> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Pablo and Bart, > Regarding arptables, there's still one limitation that we have to > resolve as it only allows EUI-64 addresses (which should be the most > common case), the arptables kernel code seems to support variable > length hardware addresses up to 128 bytes long IIRC. Tomasz has been > working on that for a while. Actually I have a question about that. On INPUT or OUTPUT I guess we need to handle input device and output device, respectively. What about FORWARD? Still input device? Afaik the output device is not know yet at that point, is it? Thanks, Tomasz