Re: status of ipchains in 2.6?

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:27:22 -0800
David Mosberger [off-list ref] 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)?

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

linux-kernel is always the wrong place to report networking
problems, most networking developers do not read linux-kernel.
They do read netdev@oss.sgi.com so please post things there.