From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: passt-dev@passt.top, Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 00/18] Rework forwarding option parsing
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 13:16:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260407031630.2457081-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> (raw)
This series makes a number of significant reworks to how we process
forwarding options (-t, -u, -T and -U) in passt & pasta. This is
largely motivated by moving towards being able to share this code with
a configuration update tool. However, along the way it also enables
some forwarding configurations that were technically possible with the
forwarding table but couldn't be specified on the command line, in
particular bug 180.
There is still a bunch of work needed to make the parsing code truly
shareable with pesto, but this is a solid start.
David Gibson (18):
conf: Split parsing of port specifiers from the rest of -[tuTU]
parsing
conf: Simplify handling of default forwarding mode
conf: Move first pass handling of -[TU] next to handling of -[tu]
doc: Consolidate -[tu] option descriptions for passt and pasta
conf: Permit -[tTuU] all in pasta mode
fwd: Better split forwarding rule specification from associated
sockets
fwd_rule: Move forwarding rule formatting
conf: Pass protocol explicitly to conf_ports_range_except()
fwd: Split rule building from rule adding
fwd_rule: Move rule conflict checking from fwd_rule_add() to caller
fwd: Improve error handling in fwd_rule_add()
conf: Don't be strict about exclusivity of forwarding mode
conf: Rework stepping through chunks of port specifiers
conf: Rework checking for garbage after a range
conf: Move "all" handling to port specifier
conf: Allow user-specified auto-scanned port forwarding ranges
conf: Move SO_BINDTODEVICE workaround to conf_ports()
conf: Don't pass raw commandline argument to conf_ports_spec()
Makefile | 10 +-
conf.c | 541 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
fwd.c | 190 ++++++-------------
fwd.h | 21 +--
fwd_rule.c | 132 +++++++++++++
fwd_rule.h | 15 ++
passt.1 | 214 +++++++--------------
7 files changed, 542 insertions(+), 581 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 fwd_rule.c
--
2.53.0
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2026-04-07 3:16 David Gibson [this message]
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 01/18] conf: Split parsing of port specifiers from the rest of -[tuTU] parsing David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 02/18] conf: Simplify handling of default forwarding mode David Gibson
2026-04-07 23:14 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-08 1:10 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 03/18] conf: Move first pass handling of -[TU] next to handling of -[tu] David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 04/18] doc: Consolidate -[tu] option descriptions for passt and pasta David Gibson
2026-04-07 23:14 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-08 1:23 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 05/18] conf: Permit -[tTuU] all in pasta mode David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 06/18] fwd: Better split forwarding rule specification from associated sockets David Gibson
2026-04-07 23:14 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-08 1:30 ` David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:39 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:47 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 07/18] fwd_rule: Move forwarding rule formatting David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 08/18] conf: Pass protocol explicitly to conf_ports_range_except() David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 09/18] fwd: Split rule building from rule adding David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 10/18] fwd_rule: Move rule conflict checking from fwd_rule_add() to caller David Gibson
2026-04-07 23:14 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-08 1:37 ` David Gibson
2026-04-08 4:42 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 11/18] fwd: Improve error handling in fwd_rule_add() David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:10 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 12/18] conf: Don't be strict about exclusivity of forwarding mode David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:12 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 13/18] conf: Rework stepping through chunks of port specifiers David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:13 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 14/18] conf: Rework checking for garbage after a range David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-09 0:15 ` David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 15/18] conf: Move "all" handling to port specifier David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 16/18] conf: Allow user-specified auto-scanned port forwarding ranges David Gibson
2026-04-08 21:40 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 17/18] conf: Move SO_BINDTODEVICE workaround to conf_ports() David Gibson
2026-04-07 3:16 ` [PATCH 18/18] conf: Don't pass raw commandline argument to conf_ports_spec() David Gibson
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