From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263912AbTJ1J4z (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 04:56:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263910AbTJ1J4v (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 04:56:51 -0500 Received: from rth.ninka.net ([216.101.162.244]:34965 "EHLO rth.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263904AbTJ1Jyi (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 04:54:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:50:32 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.or Subject: Re: status of ipchains in 2.6? Message-Id: <20031028015032.734caf21.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200310280127.h9S1RM5d002140@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <200310280127.h9S1RM5d002140@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:27:22 -0800 David Mosberger wrote: > I recently discovered that ipchains is rather broken. I noticed the > problem on ia64, but suspect that it's likely to affect all 64-bit > platforms (if not 32-bit platforms). A more detailed description of > the problem I'm seeing is here: > > http://tinyurl.com/sm9d > > Unlike ipchains, iptables works perfectly fine, so perhaps we just > need to update Kconfig to discourage ipchains on ia64 (and/or other > 64-bit platforms)? Might want to post this to the netfilter lists or netdev.... Nah, that might actually get the bug fixed. linux-kernel is always the wrong place to report networking problems, most networking developers do not read linux-kernel. They do read netdev@oss.sgi.com so please post things there.