Re: [PATCH 1/4] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_TEE

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On Monday 2010-04-19 14:20, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> +static bool
>> +tee_tg_route4(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct xt_tee_tginfo *info)
>> +{
>> +	const struct iphdr *iph = ip_hdr(skb);
>> +	struct net *net = pick_net(skb);
>> +	struct rtable *rt;
>> +	struct flowi fl;
>> +
>> +	memset(&fl, 0, sizeof(fl));
>> +	if (!tee_tg_route_oif(&fl, net, info))
>> +		return false;
>
>Redoing the interface lookup once per packet is really highly
>suboptimal. I'll change that to do the lookup once per new
>rule or simply in userspace.

I thought about that too. But if you grab a reference to the dev on
rule insertion, the rule would stop working when you down and up an
interface, which does not match the regular iptables behavior (-i and
-o options) at all.
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