On Jan 14 2008 10:53, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >> - tc is a real black-box to most users; >> lack of documentation (despite lartc.org efforts) > > That should be fixed by writing documentation, not code :) I would rather try obsoleting it. >> At which point I would be asking: why is tc trying to do the same >> as netfilter mangling targets? > > Well, true, it would be nice to be able to do this within > netfilter without TC actions. But adding a new chain to the > raw table is a high price, every new netfilter hooks costs > quite a bit of performance. Why not simply do this in the > mangle table? That will also make rerouting in OUTPUT work > as a side effect. That may just work. > Another issue is IPv6 support. Everyone agrees that we don't > want to support IPv6 NAT. So this would have to be removed. There is a need for IPv6 (conntrackful) NAT actually, just like there is for DHCPv6. Hiding hosts (you want websites to know how many devices you have?) or when your ISP runs a pay-per-address model. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
