On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:44:23PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that our set of keywords in nftables is pretty rich and > this can cause conflicts in the grammar when a keyword is also used > as a symbol. > > For instance, we do have a "redirect" expression and "redirect" as > a word is also used as an ICMP message type. > > # here is the redirect expression in action, which works: > $ nft add rule tcp dport 80 redirect to 8080 > > # here's an ICMP rule that works > $ nft add rule filter input icmp type echo-request accept > > # here's an ICMP rule that should work, but it doesn't > $ nft add rule filter input icmp type redirect accept > > The root cause is that "redirect" is now recognized as a token, whereas the > icmp type is expecting a STRING token. > > I have tried to solve this but the idea I had didn't work out, and I don't > really have more time now to fix it, but still thought this information > would be useful. The problem is known, the test infrastructure is catching this among other existing problems. You can also file a bug to bugzilla if this doesn't exist already so we can track this. -- 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
