t/h/L/vif-common.sh: disable handle_iptable

Also see Debian bug #894013. The current attempt at providing
anti-spoofing rules results in a situation that does not have any
effect. Also note that forwarding bridged traffic to iptables is not
enabled by default, and that for openvswitch users it does not make any
sense.

So, stop cluttering the live iptables ruleset.

This functionality seems to be introduced before 2004 and since then it
has never got some additional love.

It would be nice to have a proper discussion upstream about how Xen
could provide some anti mac/ip spoofing in the dom0. It does not seem to
be a trivial thing to do, since it requires having quite some knowledge
about what the domU is allowed to do or not (e.g. a domU can be a
router...).

Signed-off-by: Hans van Kranenburg <hans@knorrie.org>

diff --git a/tools/hotplug/Linux/vif-common.sh b/tools/hotplug/Linux/vif-common.sh
index a8e65178f9074390eb6a1bdf5b1f741fffac66ad..99ff1baaa6361e651fd2e14eb90565d9823c1993 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/hotplug/Linux/vif-common.sh
+++ b/tools/hotplug/Linux/vif-common.sh
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ frob_iptable()
 #
 handle_iptable()
 {
+  # This function is disabled in Debian packaging. See Debian bug #894013.
+  return 0
+
   # Check for a working iptables installation.  Checking for the iptables
   # binary is not sufficient, because the user may not have the appropriate
   # modules installed.  If iptables is not working, then there's no need to do