Bugs in Iptables 1.2.8-20020825

[Simon Kowallik <sub@offlineprovider.de>]

Hello list,

I've found a few "old" problems in iptables 1.2.8-20020825.
The use of '-p icmp' should match all IP packets of type icmp,
but instead it only matches type 0.
# iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
# iptables -nvL INPUT
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 11197 packets, 881K bytes)
target        prot opt in     out     source               
destination        
ACCEPT icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          
icmp type 0

The use of iptables-save and iptables-restore doesn't work as expected, too.
 > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -j ACCEPT
 > iptables -A INPUT -p udp -j ACCEPT
 > iptables-save
# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.8-20020825 on Thu Nov  7 21:27:44 2002
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [11308:890245]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [12961:1939089]
-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p udp -m udp -j ACCEPT
# iptables-save | iptables-restore
iptables-restore v1.2.8-20020825: Unknown arg `0'
Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information.

This error apeared in 1.2.7 too.
I hope the final release of 1.2.8 will not contain this bugs.

I tested this on RedHat 7.3 with:
kernel 2.4.19
iptables v1.2.8-20020825
patch-o-matic-20021003

Regards,
Simon Kowallik

simon@offlineprovider.de
http://offlineprovider.de/site/netfilter/netfilter.php