condition for 2.6.16

[Gerd v. Egidy]

On Friday 21 April 2006 01:26, Massimiliano Hofer wrote:
> On Friday 21 April 2006 12:47 am, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > It was discussed at the netfilter workshops, summaries are available at
> > workshop.netfilter.org.
>
> I did a cursory check of the site, but I only found a 5 or 6 lines summary
> for every conference. Google doesn't help either.
> May you direct me to a more comprehensive report, please?

There is no big discussion about condition online but one line at 
http://workshop.netfilter.org/2004/ :

6.2. Decisions about individual patches
...
condition  Stays in POM, because it's ugly and ruleset updates are faster 
these days 

I don't know more than that because I didn't attend that netfilter workshop.

I already had a discussion about the future of condition with Harald back in 
2004 and he basically said the same as Patrick now:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.devel/5694

I think something like condition is needed as temporary solution until the 
proposed fast and reliable way to change rules is available. I very much 
appreciate your work on porting it to 2.6, I already had planned doing that 
in the nex two or three month.

Kind regards,

Gerd