Re: arptables

Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 20 October 2003 21:54, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm currently in the process of building a Debian package for arptables
> and have some comments:
>
> 1. I attached a man page for arptables. It is based on the man page for
>    ebtables. Please review and include into the package if appropriate.

At first sight I see there is a mentioning of --atomic-file and --init-table, 
which shouldn't be there. The fact that the FORWARD chain doesn't exist in 
2.4 should be said.

> 2. Currently it's needed to compile arptable differently for 2.4 and
>    2.6 kernels. Of course, this is a problem if both kernels are installed
>    and may be booted on the machine. It would probably be better to
>    compile both versions into one binary and choose during runtime by
>    querying the running kernel version. What are your plans to address
>    this issue?

I'll have a look, shouldn't be too hard.

cheers,
Bart



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