Re: Packet duplication

[Tiaan Wessels <tiaan@netsys.co.za>]

Rob Sterenborg wrote:
>>> To see what happens, I patched the kernel manually (copied files,
>>> added stuff to Kconfig and Makefile), configured it for ROUTE (ipv4)
>>> and it seems to compile. I can't test if it will work, however.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> i know this is much asked but any chance you could explain to me what
>> you did ? (you can be brief) -
>>     
>
> The patch is not hard to include manually. If you look in POM-ng's
> patchlets directory, you see all available patches including the ROUTE
> patch. There, you go to the source you need (I guess linux-2.6).
> You'll see 2 directories: include and net. Copy these into the kernel
> source using: cp -R * /path/to/kernel.
> Next, you go to the /path/to/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter directory. You'll
> find these files:
> - Kconfig
> - Kconfig.ladd
> - Makefile
> - Makefile.ladd
> Checkout the .ladd files (there's not much in there) and add it
> somewhere to Kconfig or Makefile (I think if you look into these files
> you'll probably know where). You can delete the .ladd files afterwards.
> Do the same in /path/to/kernel/net/ipv6/netfilter.
>
> Now you can configure the kernel for ROUTE and compile it. According to
> Kconfig.ladd, the ipv6 ROUTE does not work as a module so don't do
> configure it like that for ipv6; ipv4 seems fine as a module.
>
> Again: I got it to compile but that's as much as I can do here. I do not
> know if it works.
>
>
>   
thanks a million Rob,
I got it working at last using your instructions.
cheers