Re: [PATCH] iproute2 : fix to catchup with xtables/iptables >= 1.4.2

Patrick McHardy
2009-01-26T13:25:39Z

jamal wrote:
> Sorry for the long CC (copying all stakeholders)
>
> Against latest iproute2 git - fixes breakage found with debian and
> certainly with any distro using iptables 1.4.2.
>
> A small depart from the old ipt - to keep in sync with iptable/xtables
> changes. The old ipt should continue to work for iptables <1.4.1. And
> with this change, no old scripts will break.
>
> [Breakage will happen again (probably by the time we hit iptables 1.4.3)
> because xtables is still a moving target. There are quiet a few
> functions which really should be part of xtables but are currently not -
> I have labelled them in tc/m_xt.c].

libxtables.so is pretty incomplete, the best thing would be if you'd
move everything you need there so we can avoid any breakage in the
future.