Re: [netfilter-core] [ANN] net-next is OPEN

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:35:14PM +0000, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 24 Jan 2024 17:01:24 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:22:55 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> >>> Going through the failing ksft-net series on
> >>> https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/status.html, all the tests I'm
> >>> responsible seem to be passing. 
> >>
> >> Here's a more handy link filtered down to failures (clicking on
> >> the test counts links here):
> >>
> >> https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/contest.html?branch=net-next-2024-01-24--15-00&executor=vmksft-net-mp&pass=0
> >>
> >> I have been attributing the udpg[rs]o and timestamp tests to you,
> >> but I haven't actually checked.. are they not yours? :)
> >
> > Ah, BTW, a major source of failures seems to be that iptables is
> > mapping to nftables on the executor. And either nftables doesn't
> > support the functionality the tests expect or we're missing configs :(
> > E.g. the TTL module.
> 
> I don't know if it is the same issue, but for MPTCP, we use
> 'iptables-legacy' if available.
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=0c4cd3f86a400

I'd suggest you do the other way around, first check if iptables-nft
is available, otherwise fall back to iptables-nft

commit refers to 5.15 already have iptables-nft support, it should
work out of the box.