On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:29:07AM +0800, Fabrice MARIE wrote: > > Hello, > > On Monday 15 April 2002 08:46, Brad Chapman wrote: > > Mr. Harald, > > > 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..... > > Well the easy solution is to have a userspace patch (see the trivial
If I'm not mistaken, in case of REJECT it should be possible to do without a userspace patch - which is really starting to make things weird. There is no real change in the structure layout, it's just one additional value that is becoming valid... > Fabrice. -- 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+(*)
