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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IPROUTE2] IPT action compatibility with iptables 1.4.0
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:57:32 -0500
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On Mon, 2007-24-12 at 09:48 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:55:05 -0500

> Is this backwards compatible with older kernels?

Yes. 
Denys change adds forward compat (although iptables in 1.4 is not fully
backward compatible).

cheers,
jamal