iptables 1.3.1 MARK target

[Graham Keeling <graham@equiinet.com>]

Hi,
I'm posting this in case you guys aren't aware of it...

I'm using kernel 2.4.26.
I recently upgraded iptables from 1.2.8 to 1.3.1.
I found that the MARK target didn't work anymore.
I couldn't do --set-mark, --or-mark or --and-mark.
The error messages were;
--set-mark: invalid argument
--or-mark: kernel too old for --or-mark
--and-mark: kernel too old for --and-mark

I investigated libipt_MARK.c and found that there were two parsing functions,
parse_v0 and parse_v1, used by
struct iptables_target mark_v0
and
struct iptables_target mark_v1

void _init(void) registers both mark_v0 and mark_v1 as targets, one after the
other.

I found that by commenting out the first 'register_target()', the MARK target
worked again.

I found the following entry in the mailing archives, which contains the
patch that inserts the two different targets;
http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2005-January/017976.html

Is this something that needs fixing, or is it known about already?

Cheers,
Graham.