Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] net: add bpfilter

From: Harald Welte <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:27:46 +0100

Hi David,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:13:35AM -0500, David Miller wrote:

> Florian, first of all, the whole "change the iptables binary" idea is
> a non-starter.  For the many reasons I have described in the various
> postings I have made today.
> 
> It is entirely impractical.

Why is it practical to replace your kernel but not practical to replace
a small userspace tool running on top of it?

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- Harald Welte <[email-masked]>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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