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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: xtables Re: Hacking iptables 1.3.5 for 2.6.17
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:39:16 +0200
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Amin Azez wrote:
> I notice a lot of things have moved to net/netfilter/xt_*.c
> 
> Is this an absolute requirement, or is there some compatability system?

No requirement, things can just stay where they are.

> I'm porting the layer7 match first, currently when adding a layer7 rule
> I get (dmesg):
> [71987.513531] ip_tables: layer7 match: invalid size 0 != 8452

8452? Thats ridiculous much .. anyway, you need to initialize the
.matchsize field to sizeof(struct ...) (the one shared with userspace).