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From: Athan <netfilter@miggy.org>
To: Mladen Meduric <mladen_meduric@yahoo.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: patching iptables - how?
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 01:24:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030109012420.GG21359@miggy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030108221616.1503.qmail@web12706.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:16:16PM +0000, Mladen Meduric wrote:
> Pretty new to linux/iptables (on SuSE8.0). I'm trying to patch from 1.2.5
> to 1.2.6a and then to 1.2.7a.

  It would probably be easier to just grab the tar ball of 1.2.7a:

	http://www.netfilter.org/downloads.html#1.2.7a

> Do have all patches. Tried "patch" command, but I seem can't figure it out
> properly. Would someone explain how to do this in couple of steps, please?
> Also, from reading other articles, after patching up or reinstalling
> iptables from scratch, is it necessary to recompile the kernel?

  Depends what features you're trying to make use of.  What's your
current kernel version (uname -r) ?

  The only thing I've personally found not working on 2.4.20 is ECN
mangle'ing for which you need this patch to the kernel:

	http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/pomlist/pom-pending.html#05_ECN-tcpchecksum-littleendian-fix

HTH,

-Ath
-Ath
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-09  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 22:16 patching iptables - how? Mladen Meduric
2003-01-09  1:24 ` Athan [this message]
2003-01-09  2:11 ` Vincent Lim
2003-01-09  2:34 ` Fabrice MARIE
2003-01-09  3:42   ` Mladen Meduric
2003-01-09 16:22     ` Arnt Karlsen

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