Bug 1628694
| Summary: | manpage: pkt_type definition lacks 'host' and 'other' types | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Tomas Dolezal <todoleza> | |
| Component: | nftables | Assignee: | Phil Sutter <psutter> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Jiri Peska <jpeska> | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | low | |||
| Version: | 7.6 | CC: | jpeska, nforro, psutter | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ManPageChange | |
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | |||
| OS: | Unspecified | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | nftables-0.8-14.el7 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | 1374754 | |||
| : | 1628696 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-08-06 13:06:14 UTC | Type: | Bug | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | 1374754 | |||
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Fix sent upstream: https://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=153691562813371&w=2 Assuming this is a minor documentation issue, targeting RHEL-7.7 for this one. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2215 |
nftables-0.8-10.el7.x86_64 nftables will present type 'host' instead of unicast, also 'other' is not documented. all 4 types including 'unicast' alias should be mentioned in pkt_type definition. man nft(8): ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤ │pkt_type │ Packet type: Unicast (addressed to lo‐ │ │ │ cal host), Broadcast (to all), Multi‐ │ │ │ cast (to group). │ └──────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────┘ +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1374754 +++ currently the nftables tool supports the following symbols for pkt_type matches: broadcast multicast unicast with the latter being quite misleading, actually meaning 'unicast packet for this host' or PACKET_HOST, in term of kernel's define. Other relevant symbols are advisable, e.g. at least for the pkt_type PACKET_OTHERHOST. --- Additional comment from Phil Sutter on 2017-10-19 10:54:24 CEST --- This was fixed by Florian: commit 8a7f6de536408336770e352cde939f8cb09a644d Author: Florian Westphal <fw> Date: Thu Oct 27 14:31:34 2016 +0200 meta: fix pkttype name and add 'other' symbol 'unicast' doesn't check for unicast packets; it checks for PACKET_HOST, i.e. a packet coming in for this host. A unicast address to some other machine (e.g. because nic is in promisc mode) will have PACKET_OTHER. So at best this is misleading, so this patch changes it to 'host'. The unicast entry is retained for compat purpose. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw> Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo> The patch is part of v0.7 release. Since RHEL7.5 will come with v0.8, this ticket is merely TestOnly anymore.