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From: "Kerin Millar" <kfm@plushkava.net>
To: "Daniel Lakeland" <dlakelan@street-artists.org>,
	"Thomas Koeller" <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>,
	netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dropping of the end of a chain
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:56:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072c0ae-0e6e-4986-9798-aeb18aec1bbf@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04ebffd9-25e3-4dad-a0c8-503449366327@street-artists.org>

On Thu, 14 Nov 2024, at 3:06 PM, Daniel Lakeland wrote:
> On 11/14/24 6:01 AM, Thomas Köller wrote:
>> The nft manpage states that if the end of a chain invoked via 'goto' 
>> is reached without a verdict, 'evaluation will continue at the last 
>> chain instead of the one containing the goto statement'. I cannot make 
>> sense of this; what is the 'last chain'?
>>
>>
>
> Pretty sure this means It will return to the chain that called goto (the 
> last chain that was active)

That is not the case. You are effectively describing the behaviour of 'jump', as opposed to 'goto'.

--
Kerin Millar

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-14 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-14 14:01 Dropping of the end of a chain Thomas Köller
2024-11-14 15:06 ` Daniel Lakeland
2024-11-14 15:56   ` Kerin Millar [this message]
2024-11-14 15:51 ` Kerin Millar
2024-11-14 16:26   ` Kerin Millar
2024-11-14 20:47     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-11-14 22:06       ` Kerin Millar
2024-11-14 22:40         ` Daniel Lakeland
2024-11-15  8:59         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-11-15  1:30 ` imnozi

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