[PATCH 13/18] Netfilter: Multiport revision with port ranges (replaces "mport")

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Wed Jan 5 06:46:54 CET 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 20:30 -0800, Phil Oester wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:35:59PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > The multiport match doesn't support ranges of ports, so a new match
> > called "mport" was written.  Now we have versioning of matches and
> > targets, we can simply put this extension in multiport revision 1.
> 
> While I agree the above is a useful change, why not also add inversion
> to multiport in the process -- as long as you're making a new revision?
> Or should that be done in revision 2?

If you put it in before 2.6.11 is released, it can go in the current
revision, otherwise we want a new one (where do we put the invert
flags?).

Cheers,
Rusty.
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