Re: Mangling IP Options fields

[Jonas Berlin <xkr47@outerspace.dyndns.org>]

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Quoting Quinton Hoole on 2005-05-19 12:58 UTC:

> Hi Jonas

Hello!

> Thanks for your kind offer of help! I assume you meant it ;-)  If so,
> here goes...

Sorry for late reply..

> Now I try to use patch-o-matic to apply the IPV4OPTSSTRIP patch, but get

Do you possibly mean patch-o-matic-ng (ng = next generation :) ?

If not, you should fetch the latest snapshot from:

http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/patch-o-matic-ng/snapshot/

> the following error:
> ===================
> Do you want to apply this patch [N/y/t/f/a/r/b/w/q/?] y
> Testing patch base/IPV4OPTSSTRIP.patch...
> Warning - no help text file could be found in either
> /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/Config.help
> or /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help
> fgrep: /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/Config.in: No such file or
> directory
> Could not find place to slot in Config.in line
> TEST FAILED: patch NOT applied.
> ===================

At least it worked for me with vanilla 2.6.11.

> I installed the kernel source RPM according to the instructions in the
> FC3  (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/), which
> places  the kernel source in

The error message makes me think you have the old patch-o-matic or an
outdated patch-o-matic-ng..

> Then by executing the following I got the error above:
> [root@quinton-lap1 patch-o-matic]# KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux ./runme base

FYI: You can also use

  ./runme IPV4OPTSSTRIP

if you want just some specific patch.

> What am I doing wrong?  Should I be using a standard kernel from
> kernel.org, rather than my FC3 kernel?

I think it should work fine on both.

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