Suggestions regarding multiport match and chain traversing

[Harald Welte]

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:50:09PM +0200, Wiktor Wodecki wrote:
> Hello,
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> > Hi all
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> > I have two suggestions for your very nice netfilter framework:
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> > First of all it would be nice if the multiport match would accept not=
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> > only single ports but also port ranges. This would streamline the=20
> > whole thing a little bit. I don't know the actual code, but the=20
> > implementation of multiport probably uses an array to store the=20
> > ports. If this array could be extended to be an array of structs then=
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> > it would be possible to store also port ranges, e.g.
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> there is a mport patch in patch-o-matic (any plans of merging it with
> standard multiport?) which does exactly what you want.

As usually with all modifications of matches/targets, there is the
compatibility issue:

- old iptables userspace needs to work with new kernel mport
- new kernel mport needs to work with old kernel mport

> Johoho		    |    http://johoho.eggheads.org

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