Re: ebtables-nft: user-defined chain policies

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:37:29PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:17:28PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:16:11PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> > > Hi Arturo,
> > > 
> > > I see that in your commit[1] you explicitly disable policy setting for
> > > user-defined ebtables chains. Is this because ebtables-nft can't support
> > > them or was it a design decision? I'm asking because it leads to
> > > unexpected results for people using ebtables-nft as a drop-in
> > > replacement of the legacy ebtables tool.
> > 
> > Kernel side currently doesn't support default policy for non-base
> > chains, we would need a patch to support this.
> 
> I see. Thanks for the clarification!
> 
> Eric, can we get by without this (yet another) ebtables quirk or is it
> mandatory for firewalld functionality?

It would be nice to see it implemented for parity with ebtables-legacy -
I'm sure some ebtables user will expect it to work. firewalld could work
around its absence by always adding a "-j RETURN" to the end of every
user defined chain in ebtables.

Thanks.
Eric.



[Index of Archives]     [Netfitler Users]     [LARTC]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Forum]

  Powered by Linux