Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Release of iptables-1.4.10

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

On 02.11.2010 17:40, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
>> The netfilter coreteam presents:
>>
>>     iptables version 1.4.10
>>   
> General question: Would it be safe to compile this (from source) and
> install it on my system which has the 2.6.16.60 kernel and iptables
> 1.3.7 installed and running?

Yes, that should work. Generally newer kernels may require newer
versions of iptables because old match or target revisions got
removed in the kernel, but the other way around should always work.

> I am quite desperate to get ipset working on that machine and, as I
> understand it, I have a choice of either compiling the 1.3.7 version
> (adding kernel/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_set.h from ipset source
> tree to include/linux/netfilter_ipv4 prior to that) or compile the
> latest 1.4.10 version of iptables prior to compiling and installing ipset.
> 
> I just compiled both versions of iptables and did 'make' successfully,
> though I haven't yet made the install.