Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_NFLOG: allow 128 character log prefixes

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Tue Jul 27 2021 - 17:52:50 EST


On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:44:42PM -0500, Alex Forster wrote:
> > I'm not refering to nftables, I'm refering to iptables-nft.
>
> Possibly I'm misunderstanding. Here's a realistic-ish example of a
> rule we might install:
>
> iptables -A INPUT -d 11.22.33.44/32 -m bpf --bytecode "43,0 0 0
> 0,48 0 0 0,...sic..." -m statistic --mode random --probability 0.0001
> -j NFLOG --nflog-prefix "drop 10000 c37904a83b344404
> e4ec6050966d4d2f9952745de09d1308"
>
> Is there a way to install such a rule with an nflog prefix that is >63 chars?

Yes, you can update iptables-nft to use nft_log instead of xt_LOG,
that requires no kernel upgrades and it will work with older kernels.