> Notify whom? I mean we could probably notify someone or something when the
> high-level openwrt firewall
> is reloaded. In fact there is already a user-script hook.
Notify a kernel module that the firewall configuration has changed.
The user script is called only when the firewall is restarted
You are right. I asked it in the netfilter-devel mailing list -
libipct was never meant to be used as a public interface:
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/FAQ/netfilter-faq-4.html#ss4.5
Meh, absent of anything else it de-facto is anyway, see e.g. squid,
miniupnpd and others using it as we
Hi Steven,
> afaik - and please correct me if I'm wrong - that works only for the
> iptables CLI command, however our firewall tool currently uses libiptables
> directly so I don't think it would work easily.
You are right. I asked it in the netfilter-devel mailing list -
libipct was never meant
Hi Tomer,
Regarding the firewall package - its probably a dumb question, but
isn't this the reason for nftables' compatibility layer?
(http://git.netfilter.org/iptables-nftables/)
afaik - and please correct me if I'm wrong - that works only for the
iptables CLI command, however our firewal
Hi Steven,
Thanks for answering so quickly - I'll try to play with nft and help with
testing.
Regarding the firewall package - its probably a dumb question, but isn't
this the reason for nftables' compatibility layer? (
http://git.netfilter.org/iptables-nftables/)
Best Regards,
Tomer
On Dec 14,
Hi Tomer,
I am currently working on a kernel module which offloads traffic from
the Networking stack.
This is part of a project which optimizes IP forwarding for low end
routers that have weak CPU and low on memory.
Sounds interesting. Other approaches of speeding up forwarding are btw.
also
Hi,
My name is Tomer and I'm a software engineer specializing in embedded linux
kernel networking.
I am currently working on a kernel module which offloads traffic from the
Networking stack.
This is part of a project which optimizes IP forwarding for low end routers
that have weak CPU and low on
