Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:57:08 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com, albert@users.sourceforge.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de, gandalf@wlug.westbo.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
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On 23 Sep 2004 15:36:34 -0400
Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> wrote:

> I'm still not seeing a need to run an x86-64 kernel
> with an i386 iptables.

Me neither.  And it's not like the netfilter tools have
any interesting library dependencies either, ldd on
iptables for example is merely:

        libdl.so.2 => /lib/ultra3/libdl.so.2 (0x7002c000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/ultra3/libnsl.so.1 (0x70040000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/ultra3/libc.so.6 (0x70068000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x70000000)

And that's just libc.

If Andi would code on kernel bug fixes for these problems
as much as he complained about them, he wouldn't have anything
to complain about :-)

I would like to see a netfilter compat layer translater engine
of some sort, none the less.  With the right design it won't
be hard to implement things properly.

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