Re: iptables.8 manpage not complete

["Hervé Eychenne" <rv@wallfire.org>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:25:20PM +0100, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:47:40PM +0100, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> > > What also is on my TODO list for some time:  Put manpage sections for
> > > all recently-added-to-mainstream-kernel matches+targets.  I think the
> > > manpage hasn't been synced with the by-default available matches/targets
> > > for quite some time.

> > Oh, really?
> > It seems to me that my last patch added the missing matches and
> > targets, and that none has been added since (although I remember
> > having posted a request on netfilter-devel about the possible
> > inclusion of NETMAP in mainstream kernel and received no answer...).

> the 'helper' match present in 2.4.20 is at least one example which is
> not in the manpage yet. We already had this in 1.2.7a!

Yes, you're completely right.  I had checked before replying and had
noticed that only one was missing... indeed, it was ipt_helper.c...
But I didn't remember having ever heard about this match before (despite
my daily read of the devel mailing-list) and a very quick look to the
code made me consider it as... well, I don't know... a sort of 'dummy'
module. ;-) Maybe it's because of its very generic nature.
But I was clearly wrong. Never trust me again, please. :-)

So, now, I'll let Martin Josefsson document it, as he should have
right from the start. ;-)

And to win some kind of forgiveness, I'll help Andras Kis-Szabo by
letting him know that eui64 and length matches seem to be missing in
his ip6tables manpage.

Yesterday I was a loser, now I'm an informer... it's only getting
worser! ;-)

 Herve

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