On 19 April 2016 at 13:02, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > How much of that could be done with nftables btw? > >> I'm not sure if I follow. Do you mean what I've been able to do with >> relayd until now? Without link-local ipv6 routing DHCPv6 is broken >> (could probably addressed with DHCPv6 Relay to a certain degree) and >> RS/RA may not work (if it propagates fe80:: routes). Also apps that >> rely on fe80:: socket binding/addressing will fail. > > Ok, so that makes sense I guess - but you were speaking of some packet > mangling etc. and I was wondering if the nftables virtual machine could > actually do something like that. By mangling I meant packet payload needs to be modified in various ways (typically just ether_dest/src, but ARP/NS/NA/DHCP needs extra care). I don't think you can force a link-local packet to switch interfaces through nftables anyway (or can you?). Even if you could I guess you could argue it's a bug? Michał -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
