Re: [ANNOUNCE] call for testing of patch-o-matic-ng

[Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>]

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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:11:16AM +0100, Willy TARREAU wrote:
> Hi Harald,
> 
> Just tested it on top of 2.4.25, like this :
> 
>     KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.25-pomng ./runme --batch extra
> 
> and I got a few problems :
> 
>   - first, I didn't find how to specify where my iptables sources is
>     installed, so I had to enter it by hand each time I restarted it.
>     I did not find any env variable in the perl code, and I must say
>     that my understanding of perl is, hmmm.. very limited.

I've now introduced the IPTABLES_DIR environment variable (or the
--iptables-path option)

>   - ROUTE and TRACE told me :
>     "unable to find ladd slot in src /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-pomng/./net/ipv6/Makefile"
>     I think they wanted to add a line in the Makefile but didn't find
>     the right place to do so. 

Yes, indeed.  They were in the wrong directory, should be fixed now.

> BTW, is there a way to install a patch only for ipv4 or for ipv6 like before ?

no.

>   - I observed usual conflicts :
>     present 'CONNMARK' conflicts with to-be-installed 'connbytes'
>     present 'raw' conflicts with to-be-installed 'conntrack-seqfile'
>     present 'CONNMARK' conflicts with to-be-installed 'conntrack_arefcount'

yes, that is normal and perfectly ok.

>   - and finally, trying to apply conntrack_locking litterally killed my
>     box in out of memory within a few tens of seconds (I could not even
>     run ps) :

ouch.  That needs to be fixed.  I'll try to reproduce that.

> Cheers,
> Willy

Thanks for your testing so far.

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>             http://www.netfilter.org/
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