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From: Rudolf_AT <Rudolf_AT.nf@aon.at>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: IP sets: Suggestion: additional value match
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:29:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55BA42E9.70808@aon.at> (raw)

Hi,

when working with IP sets, I came up with the following idea:
adding a value match:

  -j SET --add-set set1 flag[,flag]=value
  --match-set set1 flag[,flag]=value

Where value is an integer which is set in the added list element of the 
SET target. The value does not change the dimension of the list. The 
match is true only if the given value is equal to the value stored in 
the found element.

Optionally adding an arbitrary value could help using IP sets in even 
more ways than now, for example easily tracking packets independently of 
other extensions or matches.

For example, instead of using three sets to distinguish between three 
different states:
  -j SET --add-set state1set src,dst,dst
  -j SET --del-set state2set src,dst,dst
  -j SET --del-set state3set src,dst,dst
one would write:
  -j SET --add-set aset1 src,dst,dst=<integer>
Where <integer> resembles state1|state2|state3 then.

Maybe you can think of more uses for this feature.
As a further enhancement bit operators might be useful, too.

Best Regards,
Rudolf

             reply	other threads:[~2015-07-30 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-30 15:29 Rudolf_AT [this message]
2015-08-03  9:13 ` IP sets: Suggestion: additional value match Jozsef Kadlecsik
2015-08-04  5:51   ` Rudolf_AT
2015-08-06 16:08     ` Rudolf_AT

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