netdev - Re: [PATCH] iproute2 : fix to catchup with xtables/iptables >= 1.4.2

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Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:25:35 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>,
	Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky <yevg@...em.net>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2 : fix to catchup with xtables/iptables >= 1.4.2

jamal wrote:
> Sorry for the long CC (copying all stakeholders)
> 
> Against latest iproute2 git - fixes breakage found with debian and
> certainly with any distro using iptables 1.4.2.
> 
> A small depart from the old ipt - to keep in sync with iptable/xtables
> changes. The old ipt should continue to work for iptables <1.4.1. And
> with this change, no old scripts will break.
>  
> [Breakage will happen again (probably by the time we hit iptables 1.4.3)
> because xtables is still a moving target. There are quiet a few
> functions which really should be part of xtables but are currently not -
> I have labelled them in tc/m_xt.c].

libxtables.so is pretty incomplete, the best thing would be if you'd
move everything you need there so we can avoid any breakage in the
future.
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