Re: Is p-o-m still the correct thing to use?

[Brian Mearns <mearns.b@gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot for the help, Andrew. The iptables source I have doesn't 
have a configure script...oh, but it does have an autogen script. I 
guess I was probably supposed to use that first. But it's a moot point, 
apparently, because of xtables, so I will be switching to that.

Thanks,
-Brian

Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> The latest version of POM seems to be from 2004, and I saw some 
>> references in the mailing list archive seeming to indicate that is' 
>> being deprecated, but is there anything to replace it?
> 
> For POM-ng, if you look in the snapshot directory of the FTP server, you'll find
> daily versions up to yesterday.  However, I recently tried to use on of those to
> install the condition patch, and it failed for reasons that I wasn't able to
> figure out in 30 mins. or so of research.
> 
> POM has now been superseded by xtables-addons
> (http://jengelh.medozas.de/projects/xtables/).  Unfortunately the netfilter site
> hasn't been updated yet to reflect this.  Discussion threads on that in this
> forum within the last week:
> 
>   POM Xtables???
>   patch-0-matic problems..?
> 
> At first I was annoyed at yet another big change in netfilter patching, but
> xtables-addons is better because it doesn't require you to patch either your
> kernel or iptables.
> 
>> I'd really like to patch in TARPITs, but the latest POM does not work 
>> with the latest iptable src ("doesn't look like a iptables source code 
>> directory to me.")
> 
> You have to run ./configure in your iptables source dir first.  Not sure if that
> used to be the case-- I think it wasn't.
> 
> That gets to wny I always used to hate using POM.  It was unique and volatile--
> about once a year someone would change something and my script would break and
> I'd have to go back and figure it all out again.  Good riddance, I say.
> 
> Good luck,
> Andrew.
> 
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