Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2010-04-21 14:59, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> The SYSRQ target will allow to remotely invoke sysrq on the local >>> machine. Authentication is by means of a pre-shared key that can >>> either be transmitted plaintext or digest-secured. >> I really think this is pushing what netfilter is meant for a bit >> far. Its basically abusing the firewall ruleset to offer a network >> service. >> >> I can see that its useful to have this in the kernel instead of >> userspace, but why isn't this implemented as a stand-alone module? >> That seems like a better design to me and also makes it more useful >> by not depending on netfilter. > > That sort of diverts from the earlier what-seemed-to-be-consensus. > > Oh well, I would not mind holding the single commit up as long as the > rest isn't blocked too :-) Then lets skip this one for now. -- 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
