Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Allow dropping packet after call to l4proto->packet

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2009-03-12 16:13, Christoph Paasch wrote:
> 
>> As NF_DROP = 0, no packets would ever have been dropped.
> 
> Mh would not it be safer to actually give NF_DROP a real value so that 
> -NF_DROP also makes sense?
> (Might need checking places where NF_DROP is used.)

We cannot change the current value of NF_DROP. This is exposed to
userspace in libnetfilter_queue. Changing the value would break backward
compatibility of existing applications.

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