Re: status of ipchains in 2.6?

["David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:27:22 -0800
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> 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.