Hi David, On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 05:33:54PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Any particular reason why translating iptables rather than nftables > > (it should be possible to monitor the nftables changes that are > > announced by kernel and act on those)? > > As Daniel said, iptables is by far the most deployed of the two > technologies. Therefore it provides the largest environment for > testing and coverage. As I outlined earlier, this way you are perpetuating the architectural mistakes and constraints that were created ~ 18 years ago without any benefit from the lessons learned ever since. In netfilter, we already wanted to replace it as early as 2006 (AFAIR) with nfnetlink based pkttables (which never materialized). I would strongly suggest to focus on nftables (or even some other way of configuration / userspace interaction) to ensure that the iptables userspace interface can at some point be phased out eventually. Like we did with ipchains before, and before that with ipfwadm. By making a new implementation dependant on the oldest interface you are perpetuating it. Sure, one can go that way, but I would suggest this to be a *very* carefully weighed decision after a detailed analysis/discusison. -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6) -- 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
