Re: arptables ruleset not working when compiling on fedora6,7,8/centos 5/redhat 5

[Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>]

Patrick McHardy schreef:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Wednesday 2009-07-01 11:56, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>> Nishit Shah wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Nishit Shah<nsshah.82@gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> -/usr/include/linux/netfilter.h:#define NF_MAX_VERDICT NF_REPEAT
>>>>> +/usr/include/linux/netfilter.h:#define NF_MAX_VERDICT NF_STOP
>>>>>
>>>> I am adding the patch for the same.
>>> Please send this to Bart (CCed), who is maintaining arptables.
>>
>> There is also a rogue arptables_jf clone by some RedHat person —
>> no homepage, no point of download except distro .src.rpms —
>> and used by Fedora and openSUSE.
>>
>> Ccing the relevant persons responsible for that clone, which I am 
>> also hereby accusing of failing to submit their stuff upstream 
>> causing unnecessary extra hurdles for users.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. Jay, please elaborate on why you've
> chosen to fork this instead of working with upstream.
>
>
I'm not sure when that code was created but I don't think it was a fork. 
I have no idea why they didn't mention this to the netfilter team, it 
would have spared me the trouble. I received a mail from someone at 
RedHat about their tool on 20/10/2003 and I pointed out the sourceforge 
project ebtables where it's maintained. I didn't know they were still 
using their own version...

cheers,
Bart