Re: Re: ebt_inat

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Bart De Schuymer wrote:

> How about 'D' (or something else descriptive) instead of '_'?

I have thinked about this much, and I have come to conclusion, that:

- it would better not be any alphanumeric sign, to one can easily tell
this from MAC,

- it should not be any sign considered by bash as special,

From the remaining _ is the best, beacuse:

- it lays maximally down and makes think of DROP

- graphically, the 00:0a:de:ad:be:ef=_ looks like a curve going down to
hit the floor

- from the other side, it looks somewhat like a broken pipe sticking out
of the MAC address, from which a liquid is spilling out and forming a
puddle, thus never reaching its destination.

> > If nobody needs such features, OK - I will not create them, because I
> > don't need them much, too.
>
> Perhaps first concentrate on getting inat finished. We can then see what DaveM
> thinks.

Yes, of course. Finishing the present tasks is more important than
beginning future tasks. I proposed that having this rule on mind.

> OK. I'll put your situation+solution on the ebtables website later, always
> nice to have a story :)

:-)

> > not only ARP-reply packets) to the local ARP cache.
>
> We'll need to add timers so the cache entries don't stay there forever.

Entries in kernel ARP-cache are aged however. We can make advance of this.


I just committed the corrected version of the ebt_among. I didn't have
time for ebt_isnat and ebt_idnat today.

-- 
Grzesław


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