On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:59:28AM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote: > >> b) provide a separate utility to generate the BPF filter in text-based > >> format from some utility that accepts tcpdump-like syntax. The utility > >> can be distributed in the utils directory and it would not be > >> mandatory to compile it if libpcap is not present. [...] > > I would go with b) for now; we can always move to a) later on, but not > > the other way around (would kill backwards compatibility). > > This sounds like the consensus (for the record, I also prefer this less > disruptive approach). In that case, I can submit a revised libxt_bpf with your > suggested changes right away, Pablo, and we can leave the separate > userspace tool for a later commit. Either way is fine, but please we should have that utility compiler integrated in the iptables tree by when 3.9-rc1 is released. -- 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
