Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265395AbUIVOFT (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:05:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265477AbUIVOFT (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:05:19 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:55685 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265395AbUIVOFO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:05:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away. From: David Woodhouse To: Andi Kleen Cc: Martin Josefsson , Rusty Russell , Marc Ballarin , Linus Torvalds , netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, lkml - Kernel Mailing List , "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: References: <2GFBZ-61e-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <2GSfS-6eW-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <2H0ZO-49v-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <2HdDL-48z-53@gated-at.bofh.it> <2HdNp-4eJ-27@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1095861889.17821.1337.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.dwmw2.1) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:04:50 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:15 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Ever heard of iptables? > > Except that it doesn't have usable 32bit emulation on x86-64. > 32bit userland on x86-64 kernel cannot use iptables, they have > to use ipchains. > > I would ask for to not drop ipchains until this is fixed. Agreed. The iptables compatibility with 32-bit userspace is completely broken. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/