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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: New iptables structure
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:45:49 +0100
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Sven Anders wrote:

> Why not break compatibilty, if it hamper the development?


I don't see things that way, compatibility could be broken if all 
developers get their brains broken or become insane because they aren't 
able to workaround a problem. That didn't happen at the moment :)

> To prevent further incompatibility, you can insert some reserved 
> fields to the main
> structure...


it's not that easy, you can't always guess where they will come from. So 
we can't reserve a field in every structure.

I agree with Bart, backward compatibility is important.

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Pablo