On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 02:50:27PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Friday 2012-10-26 13:04, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > >> > >> Meanwhile, I am on xtables2 that actually reproduces the set of > >> _really important_ features that currently are in the setsockopt > >> iptables, like atomic table replace and atomic dump. > >> > >> I have updated to the newest tree, and the first set is > >> available in the git repository at: > >> git://git.inai.de/linux xt2-20121025 > > > >If you think this feature is important, checkout nf_tables and think > >how to integrate this prototype code that provides atomic table > >replacement to it. > > I'd rather tinker with xt2. You're are free spend your time on your pet project, but I warn you: it will *extremely hard* to justify its inclusion into mainline. As said, I don't think it makes sense to add two firewall engines/interfaces for the same thing. And the compatibility layer provides an utility with similar syntax and semantics to iptables. -- 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
