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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
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Subject: Re: status of ipchains in 2.6?
Date: 28 Oct 2003 13:13:34 GMT
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In article <bnl92k$iae$2@sea.gmane.org>,
Holger Schurig  <h.schurig@mn-logistik.de> wrote:
| > 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)?
| 
| Perhaps we simply drop ipchains support for good?

Since it worked in early test versions, how 'bout we just unbreak it?
Since the support has been in the kernel, and did work until it was
recently broken, perhaps we could skip the "I don't need it" phase and
fix the problem.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.