Re: nftables support for nspawn/networkd

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mo, 22.06.20 11:54, Florian Westphal (fw@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> > BTW, is there any perspective of using sd-netlink as library backend
> > for the interaction with the kernel side of things?
>
> I extended sd-netlink with support for nfnetlink for this to work, so
> instead of RTNETLINK+GENETLINK there is now an nfnetlink backend as
> well.

Excellent!

> >From your comments so far I would guess an acceptable solution would
> be to retain the '--with-libiptc' switch, but build the
> nfnetlink/nftables backend unconditionally.

Yes, sounds excellent.

> Then, if nftables initialisation fails (e.g. because kernel was
> built without nftables support), fall back to libiptc/iptables-classic.

Yes, perfect!

Lennart

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