Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_condition

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On Friday 2010-07-16 13:31, Luciano Coelho wrote:
>
>> >As you may have seen in my earlier rfc email, I'm interested in
>> >something similar to the condition match.  I'm not sure whether the best
>> >approach is to create a CONDITION target where we can set the condition
>> >variable in the iptables itself or if it is better to create a new
>> >"variable match" and an accompanying "VARIABLE target" that keeps the
>> >variables in memory, instead of using procfs.
>> 
>> procfs is in memory :)
>
>Yes, of course, but I meant without exporting it to procfs. ;) That
>would probably make the code a lot simpler (actually I can't imagine a
>simpler match/target than a "variable" match/target ;)

Well, if not procfs, what should influence this anonymous variable?
The weather? (No really, that came up at last NFWS. Using a userspace 
program, you can write into the procfs file and thus firewall based upon 
storm and thunder....)
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