Re: 2.6.13-mm2

Andrew Morton
2005-09-10T23:57:29Z

"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
>
>
> On 09.08, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/
> >
> > (kernel.org propagation is slow. There's a temp copy at
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-mm2.bz2)
> >
> >
>
> I can not ifup an interface while iptables is using it.
> Is this expected behaviour ?

Maybe it's expected, but breaking existing userspace is a serious issue.

> There is a possible bug (IMHO) in Mandrake initscripts, that start iptables
> before network interfaces, but this had always worked.
>
> Any ideas ?

Please always cc netdev@vger.kernel.org on networking matters.