From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Pool Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:45:31 +0000 Subject: Re: anyone caring about ipchains? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On 24 Oct 2003, David Mosberger wrote: > I noticed that ipchains isn't terribly stable in 2.6.0-test8. For me, > it caused a kernel hang after masquerading a client doing some web > surfing. Actually, it never was terribly good even on 2.4.21 as it > would cause periodic stalls (not quite as bad as the 2.6 behavior, but > still not great). iptables on the other hand seems to work quite > well. Does anyone still care about ipchains or should we just declare > it dead technology? I had the idea from Rusty that since it has been deprecated for a couple of years, it was OK for it to break unless somebody cared enough to maintain it. Maybe post to l-k to see? -- Martin