On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:57:06PM -0800, James Couzens wrote: > Running Suse 7.3 on a Sun Netra T1 105. > > The default Suse configuration provides you with kernel 2.4.14, and I ran into > problems with the packet counter functionality of iptables, which by default I > believe was 1.2.2 or somewheres around there. I have since upgraded to 2.4.18 > and then 2.4.18-ac3 and, upgraded to netfilter 1.2.6 and then 1.2.6a. Same > problems. So here is an example:
This is a known problem an has just recently been discussed on netfilter-devel. This is some strange intercation with the 32bit userspace, 64bit kernelspace implementation of linux for ultrasparc. I have now bought an Ultrasparc testing box (running since two weeks) and as soon as I find time, I'll investigate the problem. > For whats its worth, you may notice that this improper byte count only happens > to the INPUT chain. I'm not really sure if this is something to do with the > Sun HME (Happy Meal) driver, or netfilter, or even something in the kernel, > but I felt it would be advantages to at least show you (the team) the problem > in the event that perhaps you were not aware of it. It also happens in the FORWARD chain but depends on how your ruleset looks like. > Cheers, > James > -- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L++++$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M+ V-- PS++ PE-- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ !DI !D G+ e* h--- r++ y+(*)
