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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: tc ipt action
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:35:10 -0500
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On 12-12-16 01:59 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>
> A certainly safe bet would be to write, at the top of tc/m_xt.c,
>
> #if XTABLES_VERSION_CODE > 9
> #	error Someone call the guy who changed iptables and \
> 		make him fix it^W^W^W^W say you need help.
> #endif
>

Excellent idea ;->


> The following is a rough, it-compiles, untested never-run, draft of a
> module. The vision here is that userspace only ever sends a chain
> name to the kernel. The git tree/branch for it is
>
> 	git://git.inai.de/linux xt2-pktsched
>
> commit 42c559c148cbbc22bf2cc29f2ad08bc330891838
>


I'll look at it later - very slow connection at the moment so cloning 
will take a while.

cheers,
jamal