Re: arptables issue with user-defined chains and -j RETURN

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Bart De Schuymer wrote:
> Op wo, 11-06-2008 te 08:14 +0200, schreef Patrick McHardy:
>> I think the error is in userspace, it shouldn't define the value
>> dependant on a non-fixed value. If the kernel did this as well
>> before the intoduction of x_tables (which defined ARPT_RETURN
>> to XT_RETURN), compatibility was already broken by the introduction
>> of NF_STOP a long time ago. So I think the correct fix is to
>> resync the arp_tables userspace header files with the kernel.
> 
> Things compile fine from CVS using the KERNEL_DIR directive with your
> favorite kernel source.
> I'm having more trouble than I like getting things to compile by just
> also including x_tables.h in the local arptables directory (__be16 isn't
> defined). I guess my /usr/include/linux directory isn't up-to-date. Is
> there any directive about this? How does iptables cope with this?


For iptables we ended up adding the types.h file to the
iptables source. I think arptables should do the same
to support compilation on old systems.