Mr. Harald,

--- Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:55:11PM -0700, Brad Chapman wrote:
> > Mr. Harald,
> 
> Brad,
> 
> >       Here is a patchset to add ICMP type-3-code-13 to the REJECT target. 
> > Patches are enclosed and MIME'd. I only made a patch for the IPv4 version, 
> > though; if you want an IPv6 version, I can make that too.
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  Unfortunately it's not that easy. Writing the 10-line
> patch is smallest part of the job.
> 
> The interesting question is:  How to achieve backwards- and
> forwards-compatibility for
> 
> - making old kernel work with new iptables (easy)
> - making new kernel work with old iptables (easy)
> - make new iptables compile with old kernel headers
> - make old iptables compile with new kernels (easy)

        Whoops - I completely forgot about that :(

        Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that, or I would have done it.
Is it just basically a bunch of #ifdefs, or is there additional magic involved?
I can remake the patch if required.....

> 
> btw: ipv6 is not necessary, I still need to finish the ipv6 reject
> target anyways.

        OK.

> 
> > Brad
> 
> 
> -- 
> Live long and prosper
> - Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED]               http://www.gnumonks.org/

Brad


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