Re: status of ipchains in 2.6?

[David Mosberger <davidm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:50:32 -0800, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> 
>>>>> said:

  DaveM> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:27:22 -0800 David Mosberger
  DaveM> <davidm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

  >> I recently discovered that ipchains is rather broken.  I noticed
  >> the problem on ia64, but suspect that it's likely to affect all
  >> 64-bit platforms (if not 32-bit platforms).  A more detailed
  >> description of the problem I'm seeing is here:

  >> http://tinyurl.com/sm9d

  >> Unlike ipchains, iptables works perfectly fine, so perhaps we
  >> just need to update Kconfig to discourage ipchains on ia64
  >> (and/or other 64-bit platforms)?

  DaveM> Might want to post this to the netfilter lists or netdev....
  DaveM> Nah, that might actually get the bug fixed.

$ fgrep -i ipchain MAINTAINERS
$

Might want to consider updating the MAINTAINERS file?

        --david