From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ak@muc.de, gandalf@wlug.westbo.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:57:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41532A92.5080305@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095968193.4969.980.camel@cube>
Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 15:33, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
>>Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Who is doing a 32-bit userland on x86-64, and WTF for?
>>>Why do they not also run a 32-bit kernel?
>>
>>Backwards compatibility? Desire to run binary-only 32-bit software as well as
>>64-bit software on the same kernel?
>
>
> Nope. For that, you run 99% 64-bit, including iptables.
> That's what is typically done. So you'd have a 32-bit
> OpenOffice maybe, and everything else is 64-bit.
>
> I'm still not seeing a need to run an x86-64 kernel
> with an i386 iptables.
>
>
Easy migration: take your fully-set-up server image, throw in an Opteron
with 16GB RAM, and boot a 64-bit kernel. As long as you don't need more
than 4GB/program, you're set. Except your firewall is broken.
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-23 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-23 18:07 [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away Albert Cahalan
2004-09-23 19:33 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-23 19:36 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-23 19:57 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2004-09-23 19:57 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-23 23:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-09-23 23:25 ` David S. Miller
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2004-09-22 12:15 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 14:04 ` David Woodhouse
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-20 23:09 Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-09-21 12:36 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-21 21:58 ` Rusty Russell
2004-09-21 22:36 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-21 22:36 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-21 23:35 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-22 0:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-09-22 13:37 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-22 13:58 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-09-22 14:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-22 11:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-22 11:47 ` Martin Josefsson
2004-09-22 12:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-22 12:41 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-22 14:19 ` Fao, Sean
2004-09-22 15:31 ` William Stearns
2004-09-22 11:52 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-09-22 11:55 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-21 17:57 ` Bill Davidsen
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