differences between 2.4.19 and 2.4.20?

differences between 2.4.19 and 2.4.20?

[Srinivas Kommu]

Is there a major difference in the netfilter functionality in the 2.4.19 
and 2.4.20 kernels? What are the differences?

Is there a general way to find out?

thanks. any response is appreciated.
kommu

Re: differences between 2.4.19 and 2.4.20?

[Patrick Schaaf]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 03:43:07PM -0700, Srinivas Kommu wrote:
> Is there a major difference in the netfilter functionality in the 2.4.19 
> and 2.4.20 kernels? What are the differences?
> 
> Is there a general way to find out?

Yes. It's called 'diff', the result is a 'patch file'. There is also
the usual overall ChangeLog:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.20

The major change, from the ChangeLog, was this:

  o [NETFILTER]: Backport newnat infrastructure to 2.4.x

IIRC, you want to use the newest 2.4.21, and 2.4.20 had its share
of bugs in the area of netfilter. But I'm not sure: I avoided 2.4.20
for some reason, but don't remember specifics.

best regards
  Patrick

Re: differences between 2.4.19 and 2.4.20?

[Eric Leblond]

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On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 10:14, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 03:43:07PM -0700, Srinivas Kommu wrote:
> . But I'm not sure: I avoided 2.4.20
> for some reason, but don't remember specifics.

The possible DOS attack that was announced one week ago ?

BR,
-- 
Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Regit.org

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